Tag: Koichi Yamamoto

Koichi Yamamoto: the Local Benefits of a Peripatetic Printmaker

By Geoff Wichert on December 30, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

“With no news from abroad, a culture ends up repeating the same things to itself. It needs the foreign not to imitate, but to transform.” —Eliot Weinberger We take for granted that Utah has one of the more vibrant and lively arts cultures in the nation. That said, […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Koichi Yamamoto at Art Access

By Stefanie Dykes on March 5, 2006 • ( Leave a comment )

Walter Benjamin laments, in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Reproducibility”, that modern works of art have lost their “aura.” Modern images, Benjamin states, no longer have the ability to inspire or create awe in their viewers. . . and I was beginning […]