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Upcoming talk: K-narf & Shoko (artists - JP)
Date: 23.11.2024
Time: 6pm
Upcoming talk: K-narf & Shoko (artists - JP)
Date: 23.11.2024
Time: 6pm
FRANK LE PETIT, a.k.a K-NARF, is a French (and Australian) artist who lives and works in Tokyo.
Born in 1970 in Saint-Étienne [FRANCE], he is a descendant of Felix Thiollier, pioneer of Fine Art Photography in France during the second part of the XIX century. K-NARF is a self-taught photographer and started with a B&W darkroom in his parents bathroom when he was 15.
Since his first exhibition in Tokyo in 2001 with IDÉE/SPUTNIK, K-NARF has exhibited his work in France, USA, Italy, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Australia. As well as many pop-up and
non-conventional exhibitions/installations, his work was also exhibited at the MUSEUM OF SYDNEY (2004), the ARLES PHOTO FESTIVAL (2007), ISSEY MIYAKE in Paris (2012) and KYOTOGRAPHIE (2018).
His experimental approach to photography led him to be invited as one of the first members of the prestigious HP INFLUENCERS PROGRAM in 2005 (that included some of the most influancial photographers of the time), and to have support from Daniel Moquay, Director of the YVES KLEIN ARCHIVES, who has been collecting his work for 15 years.
Early 2014 he moved back his studio in Tokyo where he started to make more large-scale BRICOLAGE PHOTOGRAPHY projects including a TAPE-O-GRAPHIC LAB in a Hong-Kong tramcar, a PORTABLE OUTDOOR CINÉMA on a scooter but also a series of collaborations such as a PUBLI-IMAGINARY ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN in collaboration with PIERRE HERMÉ and a TRILOGY-FILM PROJECT for DS AUTOMOBILES.
In 2016, together with Shoko Yamaguchi, he started the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT to create an
Extra-Ordinary Visual Archive made of a hundred tape-o-graphic portraits of Japanese workers.
Their project was presented for the first time as part of KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival in May 2018.
Born in 1970 in Saint-Étienne [FRANCE], he is a descendant of Felix Thiollier, pioneer of Fine Art Photography in France during the second part of the XIX century. K-NARF is a self-taught photographer and started with a B&W darkroom in his parents bathroom when he was 15.
Since his first exhibition in Tokyo in 2001 with IDÉE/SPUTNIK, K-NARF has exhibited his work in France, USA, Italy, Singapore, Hong-Kong and Australia. As well as many pop-up and
non-conventional exhibitions/installations, his work was also exhibited at the MUSEUM OF SYDNEY (2004), the ARLES PHOTO FESTIVAL (2007), ISSEY MIYAKE in Paris (2012) and KYOTOGRAPHIE (2018).
His experimental approach to photography led him to be invited as one of the first members of the prestigious HP INFLUENCERS PROGRAM in 2005 (that included some of the most influancial photographers of the time), and to have support from Daniel Moquay, Director of the YVES KLEIN ARCHIVES, who has been collecting his work for 15 years.
Early 2014 he moved back his studio in Tokyo where he started to make more large-scale BRICOLAGE PHOTOGRAPHY projects including a TAPE-O-GRAPHIC LAB in a Hong-Kong tramcar, a PORTABLE OUTDOOR CINÉMA on a scooter but also a series of collaborations such as a PUBLI-IMAGINARY ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN in collaboration with PIERRE HERMÉ and a TRILOGY-FILM PROJECT for DS AUTOMOBILES.
In 2016, together with Shoko Yamaguchi, he started the HATARAKIMONO PROJECT to create an
Extra-Ordinary Visual Archive made of a hundred tape-o-graphic portraits of Japanese workers.
Their project was presented for the first time as part of KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival in May 2018.
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