Mako Idemitsu
Mako Idemitsu ( Japanese 出 光 真 子 , Idemitsu Mako ; * 1940 in Tokyo Prefecture ) belongs to the first generation of Japanese - American video artists .
life and work
Mako Idemitsu was born in 1940 as the daughter of Idemitsu Sazō . She first studied at Waseda University in Tokyo and later moved to Columbia University in New York. Mako Idemitsu married the painter Sam Francis (1923–1994) in 1966 , with whom she has two sons - Shingo and Osamu - and moved to Santa Monica, California. Idemitsu became involved in the women's movement and in 1972 documented the “Womanhouse” exhibition organized by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro . Returning to Tokyo in 1973, she continued to work on films dealing with traditional gender roles, motherhood, female identity and family relationships.
Idemitsu often uses televisions as part of their films, a picture-in-picture, called Mako style . Well-known films are What a Woman Made (1973), Great Mother (1983–1984), Kiyoko's Situation (1989) and Kae, Act Like a Girl (1996). Hideo: It's Me, Mama (1983) was shown at documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987 .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2010: "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen" Museum of Modern Art , New York
- 1994: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , Oberhausen
- 1990: European Media Art Festival , Osnabrück
- 1988: 3rd Videonale , Bonn
- 1987: documenta 8, Kassel
Web links
- Mako Idemitsu website
- Mako Idemitsu in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 319; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5
- ↑ The Reeler, Miriam Bale Post-'60s Spotlights Give Feminists Their Close-Ups , accessed April 26, 2015.
- ↑ The Getty Treasures from the Vault: Sam Francis and Mako Idemitsu , accessed April 26, 2015.
- ↑ National museum of women in the arts Clara database of women artists Mako Idemitsu , accessed on April 26, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Electronic arts intermix Mako Idemitsu , accessed on April 26, 2015 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Idemitsu, Mako |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 出 光 真 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese-American video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo prefecture |