{"product_id":"retina","title":"Retina","description":"The official catalogue of \"Shinro Ohtake: Retina,\" held at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA). This substantial and important volume explores the origins and foundations of Ohtake’s multifaceted artistic practice, bringing together works from his \"Retina\" series and an extensive range of related works connected through the themes of eyes, film, and photography.\n\nThe \"Retina\" series was conceived at Ohtake’s studio in Uwajima, where he relocated in 1988. Although he worked intensively on the series until the early 1990s, he has continued to develop it alongside other bodies of work ever since.\n\nThe retina is a thin, transparent membrane at the back of the eye that receives light and transmits visual information to the brain through the optic nerve. Ohtake adopted this name for a series of paintings created by greatly enlarging traces of light left on discarded Polaroid test films and applying layers of transparent urethane resin to their surfaces. The two distinct elements—the colored surface of the photographic image and the transparent layers of coating—are brought together through the viewer’s retina, forming new images in the mind that embody time and memory.\n\nWhile Ohtake continues to explore new possibilities in his latest \"Retina\" works, the photosensitive materials, left untouched and altered over long periods, bear the accumulated passage of time as visible traces. Covered by successive layers of transparent coating, the images emerging from the \"Retina\" series continue to stir viewers, evoking memories of things never seen.","brand":"Getsuyosha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66219282202973,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/retina","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}