December 17, 2008, Tokyo – Photographer and Visualist Mitsunori Sakamoto gave a talk on his experience in Indonesia and his photographic exvhibition “made in Tokyo” at the World Bank Public Information Center Tokyo (PIC Tokyo) today.
With the completion of TICAD IV (Tokyo International Conference on African Development) held in Yokohama in late May this year, where African heads of state gathered under one roof, and the Toyako G8 Summit in July, World Bank PIC Tokyo has been privileged to collaborate with various artists during this period who have featured Africa and other developing countries, highlighting the lifestyles of people living in these countries and natural beauty in their art.
The exhibition “made in TOKYO” held at World Bank PIC on December 1 to 26, 2009, features the work of visual artist Mitsunori Sakamoto, who, through his experiences in Indonesia, reinvented his modernistic works and transformed them with a new interpretation based on Tokyo influences. It displayed a world where the traditional craft patterns of Indonesia have been fused with ancient, time-honored Japanese sensibilities.art.
Profile of Mitsunori Sakamoto
Born in the Akasaka district of Tokyo in 1950, Sakamoto studied social anthropology and traveled America, Europe, and Asia in the ‘70s and ‘80s. From 1992, he worked as Creative Producer for world famous advertising agency Dentsu in Jakarta and pursued work in television commercial development for the Japanese market. Starting in 1998, getting back to nature, he discontinued his advertising work and spent 2 years in the heart of the Indonesian jungles of Java Semarang, before returning to Japan.
As a freelance visualist, he creates still photography, graphic design and graphic imagery, expanding the medium. In 2004, he exhibited the collection “MAI” at a gallery in Tokyo’s Ginza, AKUROSU with the renowned Hosho Noh Actor Noboru Sano, and also showed at galleries in Fukuoka and Koichi Prefectures in Japan. In 2005 he was commissioned to do portraits of Japanese Cabinet members and other high-level business figures for the economics magazines Forbes and Forbes Asia.
He has received the Tokyo Auto Salon Best Design Award (1988), the London International Advertising Award (1996), the Kobe Bienalle Photographic Competition Award (2007), and was winner of the National Photo Competition (2008).
December 17, 2008, Tokyo – Photographer and Visualist Mitsunori Sakamoto gave a talk on his experience in Indonesia and his photographic exvhibition “made in Tokyo” at the World Bank Public Information Center Tokyo (PIC Tokyo) today.
Born in the Akasaka district of Tokyo in 1950, Sakamoto studied social anthropology and traveled America, Europe, and Asia in the ‘70s and ‘80s. From 1992, he worked as Creative Producer for world famous advertising agency Dentsu in Jakarta and pursued work in television commercial development for the Japanese market. Starting in 1998, getting back to nature, he discontinued his advertising work and spent 2 years in the heart of the Indonesian jungles of Java Semarang, before returning to Japan.
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