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Catherine Couturier Gallery
Catherine Couturier Gallery is honored to
announce “A Wonderful World,” a solo exhibition
featuring work by Michael Kenna, he will present
photographs from decades of travels all over the
world. Kenna’s obsession with visiting and
re-visiting the same places is one that is long-held:
I had a childhood game in which I would write my
name and date on pieces of paper, then place them
around my house, on the rooftop, in the back yard,
and in the local park. The object of the game was
to see how long it would be before I went back and
retrieved them. I wanted to see what had changed
with the physical paper, how I myself had changed,
whether the writing on it had become more
fragmented or abstract from time and the
elements. —Michael Kenna To Kenna, the
photographer and subject matter are in collaboration to produce every image. “I like to think I am
having a conversation with whatever I photograph.
I try not to steal an image, but rather acknowledge
that a photograph is being made,” he explains.
Kenna feels that approaching the landscape as a
creative partner with the intention to have an
"equal exchange of energy" inevitably results in
scenes which might not otherwise have presented
themselves to him. Kenna has much reverence for
the unknown, which manifests in his work through
a strong preference for suggestion over description. Vast areas of white, gray, and black are
prominent in many compositions; the hours of
dawn and twilight are Kenna’s favorite hours to
photograph, when the sleepy mist blurs edges and
details. “As a photographer, I like to be a catalyst for
a viewer's imagination. It’s like haiku poetry. I give a
few elements, I don't present an encyclopedic
vision full of details.” For the great majority of his
career, Kenna has photographed exclusively in
black and white film with manually-operated
cameras. He still insists on working without any
digital editing. Michael Kenna has photographed
for over forty years, and has had over fifty
published books and monographs. He has also run
over 50 marathons and it is no coincidence that
the opening of this exhibition will be one day
before the Chevron Houston 26.2 mile marathon
which Kenna will once again attempt to run! We
welcome Michael Kenna back to Houston.

Biwa Lake Tree, Study 5, Omi, Honshu, Japan, 2007