Shiro Takatani

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shiro Takatani
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Oct 15, 1963(1963-10-15)
Age	61
Birthplace	Nara
Country	Japan
Birth City	Nara Prefecture
Horoscope	Libra

Shiro Takatani Biography

Shiro Takatani is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on October 15, 1963 in Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Shiro Takatani (born 15 October 1963, in Nara) is an artist from Nara. Japanese artist from Japan. He lives and works in Kyoto. Co-founder and visual designer of Dumb Type since 1984. Dumb Type since 1984, was also the Dumb Type’s artistic director in 1995. He began his solo career in the year 1998.

Following the demise of artistic director Teiji Furuhashi in 1995 certain members of the company left and new members were added, such as music director Ryoji Ikeda. They continued to work under Shiro Takatani’s direction , and produced the shows OR (1997-1999) as well as memo (1999-2003), Voyage (2002-2009) and the corresponding installation OR (1997), Cascade (2000) Voyages (2002) and MEMORANANDUM OR Voyage (2014).

Since his first installation frost frames, created at Canon Artlab in 1998, Takatani has been invited by museums, festivals and theatres worldwide.

At this period, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto noticed Takatani’s work and asked him to undertake the visual direction of his opera LIFE, created in 1999. This marked the start of a fruitful collaboration between the two artists. They co- created later, in 2007, the installation LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible … at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] (as well as an updated version in 2013), silent spins with sound designer Seigen Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo in 2012. They also participated together in three performances directed by Moriaki Watanabe: Project Mallarmé I, II and III, combining text, music, theatre and dance, at the Kyoto Performing Arts Center – Shunjuza, from 2010 to 2012. During 2013–2014, they presented in Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM], on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, their performance LIFE WELL (with the participation of Noh actor Mansai Nomura), an installation with the same title and a new one: water state 1. Furthermore, Takatani was the visual director for Sakamoto’s project Forest Symphony in 2013 and they collaborated again for a special version of LIFE- WELL, commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Park Hyatt in Tokyo, in 2014.

He was in 1990 when he was a participant alongside Akira Asada in the art project Stadsmarkeringen Groningen The project was Marking the City Boundaries, which was led by the architect Daniel Libeskind for the 950th anniversary of the City of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Shiro Takatani Net Worth

Shiro Takatani is one of the richest Artist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shiro Takatani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Graduating of Kyoto City University of Arts, Shiro Takatani co-founded Dumb Type in 1984, along with students from various parts of the university which included Teiji Furuhashi Toru Koyamada Yukihiro Hozumi Misako Yabuuchi as well as Hiromasa Tomari.

Dumb Type began touring around the globe and gained recognition for their multidisciplinary show Pleasure Life (1988), and pH (1990-1995) and S/N (1992-1996)

In 1998, he was commissioned by Art Zoyd and the Lille National Orchestra to create video images for a piece of the first cycle of Dangerous Visions, a project combining symphonic music, new musical technologies and images.

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Takatani also created and directed three theatre/dance performances: La chambre claire (2008), referring to Roland Barthes’s essay la camera lucida, CHROMA (2012), inspired by Derek Jarman’s Chroma: A Book of Color, with original music by Simon Fisher Turner, and ST/LL (2015) in which he is exploring how to consider the micromeasure of time and whether “art or science can ever truly express this hourglass world”.

Facts & Trivia

Shiro Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Shiro Takatani celebrates birthday on October 15 of every year.

Among other collaborations, he contributed in the exhibition Kichizaemon X (2012–2013), consisting of images screened on potters made by Raku Kichizaemon XV at Sagawa Art Museum, and he co-signed the 4K video installation Mars with Xavier Barral, for the international festival of photography Kyotographie at the Museum of Kyoto.