Tokyo Untitled

MC2 Gallery (Milan) in collaboration with Leica Gallery New York (New York), Leica Ginza Salon (Tokyo), Galerie Photo 4 (Paris) and Vision Quest Gallery (Genoa) are pleased to announce the photography book release of Tokyo Untitled, by Italian photographer Renato D_Agostin, with afterwords by Eikoh Hosoe and Ralph Gibson...........In Tokyo Untitled D_Agostin isolates himself in the geometries of the Japanese city. He narrates his journey through his experience of the street, describing with the language of abstract images, charged of deep blacks and sharp edges. Dislocating subjects from their realities, D'Agostin depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between the city's architecture and its people, and their interferences. This is emphasized in Tokyo, according to D'Agostin, where he has no reference or connection with the external world, and his sense of disconnection brings him to a discovery of the unseen...........Eikoh Hosoe "Tokyo Untitled" photographs bring me back to the destroyed Tokyo as it appeared right after the war ended. It may be totally impossible for young Renato to imagine that his "Tokyo Untitled" reminds me of such tragic images as Tokyo's air raid attack which happened 64 years ago"..........Ralph Gibson "These images are the thinnest possible slices of inconceivable urban density. Slices so thin that they must be measured in fractions of light, tiny microscopic moments of DNA in time taken from the huge archeology of a true metropolis"............Renato D'Agostin was born in Venice Italy in 1983. He began his career in photography in 2001. In 2002 D_Agostin attended Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan, while working with Maison Sabbatini. In 2005, D_Agostin attends International Center of Photography in New York for courses in Fine Print. Soon after, he become an assistant to Ralph Gibson. He is represented by Charles Zalber_s Photo 4, Paris, and MC2 Gallery, Milan.