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Yasumasa Morimura's new exhibition Seasons of Passion Re / a on the documentary photography of various dreadful incider coup d'6tat in 1970; a seventeen-year-old right-winger's stabb Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. Unlike his effort: body sculpting, inthis new series he attempts to become brutal of anger, death or blind faith.
Yasumasa Morimura's new exhibition Seasons of Passion Re / a on the documentary photography of various dreadful incider coup d'6tat in 1970; a seventeen-year-old right-winger's stabb Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. Unlike his effort: body sculpting, inthis new series he attempts to become brutal of anger, death or blind faith.
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Yasumasa Morimura's new exhibition Seasons of Passion Re / a on the documentary photography of various dreadful incider coup d'6tat in 1970; a seventeen-year-old right-winger's stabb Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963. Unlike his effort: body sculpting, inthis new series he attempts to become brutal of anger, death or blind faith.
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on the documentary photography of various dreadful incider coup d'6tat in 1970; a seventeen-year-old right-winger's stabb Jack Ruby's shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963; the execul are (in)famous scenes of the twentieth century and yet repreSE For the last two decades Morimura has been known dresses up as Marilyn Monroe or Faye Dunaway, and Daught the figures of Western masterpiece paintings. Unlike his effort: body sculpting, inthis new series he attempts to become brutal 0 get cIOSE (pressio Sthroes of anger, death or blind faith. As inhis previous series, Morimura plays all the charact ages, appearir )nd victim. The exquisite silver gelatin prints of three historical incidents ar n: Mishima 1970.17.25 - 2006.4.6 (2006), a colour photograph and a vid lorimura's recent monochrome prints are also of Mishima, based on Ei , Mishima A Requiem; OrSWALD,1963.11. posed in 1963. We can easily see how keen Morimura is to g extreme nationalist; a hairy, macho, naive man.) On 25 November 1970 Mishima attempted a coup d'6tatat Ichigaya Self-Defence Force headquarters, inTokyo. He made a last speech from the balcony before c
"Be quiet! Listen to me! Listen to what I say!" f,
shouts. "You are artists [samurai], aren't you? If you ai it you are so enthralled with forms of expression [con! that deny who you are? Why do you kiss the ass passing fad and fancy in Japanese art today [cons as they undermine your identity?" Mishima's origina was met with a chorus of jeers and curses, but the Morimura echoes in a sunny, empty public park. Th( ends with "Banzail Banzai! Long live art [your r Banzai!" Transfusing the passion as well as the mor of men into his own body, Morimura tries to engac twentieth century as it is symbolised by men; the cE creation and demolition through modernisation, den the twenty-first century, symbolised by women. Of cc has little to do with the new Japanese prime ministe Abe's promotion of patriotism or Takashi Murakami strategy of superflat. After elucidating Japan's compi hate relationship with Western culture through the rr of the father/daughter relationship, the new Seasons o, /A Requiem: Chapter 1 seems a flourishing of Mc ambitious approach to the issue of the relationship of cultures through examination of the past, the ambi gender and the play of fiction and non-fiction. ChiakiSakaguchi
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TITLE: Yasumasa Morimura: Seasons of Passion / A Requiem:
Chapter 1 SOURCE: Art Rev no8 F 2007 WN: 0703204391054
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