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Hiroshi Watanabe
 Dear Friends, The Main Gallery McPhee explores the rich and complex cultural heritage of India by capturing the disappearing legacy of a city on the threshold of modernization. Shifting political and cultural tides are given perspective in her work through the market places and domestic interiors of Kolkata. Her large-scale color images ultimately speak to incipient globalization, to the blending of history with contemporary life, and to the long and complex relationship between East and West. The Red Room Haunting portraits of traditional Japanese Kabuki actors play with Western imagination in this exhibition of work by Hiroshi Watanabe. Elaborate costumes and make-up heighten the psychology and drama of these images to otherworldly levels. Like his other bodies of work, however, these portraits also document their subjects in a way that is truthful, personal, and universally meaningful. Bonni Benrubi Gallery Address 41 East 57th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10022 (& Madison) The gallery is near Central Park, just a hop from Tiffany and short skip to MOMA. Please stop by the gallery when you are in New York. See you there, Hiroshi Watanabe |
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LAURA MCPHEE : Kolkata
HIROSHI WATANABE- Faces: Kabuki Players
