Wednesday, September 12, 2007

araki

Araki Nobuyoshi
This is a month of excellent Japanese contemporary art. More than 50 pictures from the 60s to year 2000 by famous Japanese photographer Araki is going to be shown. Yes, he is famous, of his pictures with naked prostitutes, S and M bondage scenarios, fetishism and eroticism– that ‘s why the master is always subject to controversy: some may say he is the greatest artist in Japan, and some may think he is only a pornographer. For the former one, including Bjork, believes that there is something behind the ropes, exposed skin and smeared lipstick marks. As in the ‘Aura- fading ”mass production of photography suggests consumption, the product-like models and every meticulous detail in the pictures, suggests unrealism. When tearing off the erotica, there lies the Zen emptiness, and great sorrows.Just like another Japanese artist, if not a writer, Yukio Mishima, Araki, the choice exposing the richness of flesh is to conquer the richer emptiness– the materialists who are so attached to the flesh, are actually, nihilists. Keumsan Gallery (6436 6176 )

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