Tyo-Wtc (Signed)

Taiji Matsue
Tyo-Wtc (Signed)

Photographs: Taiji Matsue

Text: Shino Kuraishi

Publisher: Akaaka Art Publishing

112 pages

Pictures: 97

Year: 2013

Comments: Softcover, 150 x 190 mm. First edition, 2013. Text in english and in japanese. Signed by the photographer.

Matsue's message is that in a city there has only ever been and will always be development, only generation, and to this there is no alternative. Construction works have always been starting everywhere. After finishing, they start again. A city is an unceasing cycle of construction and destruction. And this in Tokyo, an amorphous place, almost entirely bereft of green, and peerless in its absence of planning. With no retraceable origin and no possibility of future completion, there is only development, ever-repeating generation. It is the bold challenge of capturing this within the depth of a limited time which has brought us TYO-WTC.