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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition 'Absolute Landscape between Illusion and Reality' held from February to March 1997 at the Yokohama Museum of Art.
Today's landscape becomes a new theme that is charged with a completely different meaning. Inhuman cityscapes — the site of repressed desire, the darker side of the city hidden from our eye, and the topography of the metropolis constantly destroyed and them re-created — are at once the 'lost' landscape and the 'only and absolute' landscape left to us.
Works selected for this exhibition are mundane in the sense that they constitute the prosaic urban scenery that one will remember in his lifetime or the inevitable landscape of death. Thus, the artists who have created them do not necessarily seek to convey a specific social message through them but to express their private gaze cast upon landscape and a sense of distance from it.
Artist biographies are included.
Other participating artists: Larry Clark, Beat Streuli, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andres Serrano, Lewis Baltz, Catherine Wagner, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Wall, Hannah Collins, John Gossage, Thomas Struth, Alfredo Jaar.
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