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From the collection ‘Sewing the Invisible’ (A Costudara do Invisivel) by designer Jum Nakao, showcased at Paper Fashion exhibition at MoMu Antwerp, 2009
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Daïdo Moriyama - From Erotica: Daïdo Moriyama and the photography of nudes exhibition at the Da End Gallery, Paris, 2011
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From Araki’s book Senchimentaru Na Tabi Haru No Tabi (Sentimental Journey, Spring Journey) and the exhibition of the same name at Rat Hole Gallery in 2010
“My wife Yoko first brought Chiro home from Kasukabe when she was just a four month old kitten.”
- Nobuyoshi Araki, Itoshi No Chiro (Chiro, My Love), 1990
Chiro, who for the past 22 years posed for her beloved owner and photographer Araki, passed away on March 2, 2010. In human years, she lived to be about 105 years old. “No woman has showed as much love for me as Chiro did,” says Araki of his cat, who was the apple of his eye, always there to support him especially after his wife Yoko sadly passed away before her time. Today, 20 years after the death of Yoko, Araki is once again forced to deal with the painful hardship of losing a loved one. Through his photographs, he narrates a story of how “life is a journey” composed of the everyday moments that flow between life and death.
This exhibition features photographs taken by Araki in Chiroʼs final months, depicting Chiro in a range of poses- walking around the balcony, lying on the bed, staring intently at the camera. Although Chiro is captured though the lens of Arakiʼs camera, it is as though we can see her right in front of our eyes and hear her meowing softly, yearning for her ownerʼs attention or crying out her loneliness. Chiroʼs vivid expressions and the landscapes in Arakiʼs photographs are weaved together to form a love story that gently conveys Arakiʼs deep affection for Chiro. Images of the sky, flowers and other scenes taken after Chiroʼs death reverberate a sentimental melody that is touching to the heart.
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Ljubomir Šimunić, Tajni život beogradske periferije Filmovi i fotografije 1973-2012 [Secret life of Belgrade suburbia Films and photographs 1973-2012]
exhibition currently on view at Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade
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Ljubomir Šimunić, Tajni život beogradske periferije Filmovi i fotografije 1973-2012 [Secret life of Belgrade suburbia Films and photographs 1973-2012]
exhibition currently on view at Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade
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Daïdo Moriyama - From Erotica: Daïdo Moriyama and the photography of nudes exhibition at the Da End Gallery, Paris, 2011
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Film Still #2 by Alex Prager, 2012 (from La Petite Mort)
Previously displayed at Compulsion exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery, April-May, 2012
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Anagram by Anna Gaskell, 2003
The German artist Hans Bellmer said that “the body is like a sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series of endless anagrams.” His reference to the type of wordplay that involves reordering the letters in a word so a new word is formed makes sense when applied to the life-size dolls he created in the 1930s. Taking advantage of the possibilities afforded by their ball-and-socket joints, Bellmer manipulated these mannequins in endless configurations, rearranging their parts like words in a sentence, and capturing the results in drawings or photographs. Two works on view in Exquisite Corpses exhibit Bellmer’s anagrammatic impulse. The painted aluminum sculpture Doll reduces a body to a belly surrounded by two pelvises, with ball joints exposed, as if awaiting additional appendages. The delicate cross-hatching in the drawing The Doll emphasizes these bulbous connecting points.
I’m not sure if the contemporary artist Anna Gaskell was thinking of Bellmer when she made her series ofAnagram drawings, or if, as in a case of convergent evolution, she was independently concerned with the graphic potential of a manipulated body. Either way, the three Gaskell drawings on view have something to say to the Bellmers across the gallery. In one of Gaskell’s drawings, a pair of legs is split across two sheets of paper; they’re twisted at angles that would be impossible to replicate in real life. In another, a series of individual legs stretches out across the page; there’s a sense that each one might correspond to a letter, with the overall composition spelling out a message, though it’s impossible to read. A third drawing sees a single leg tied up at the top like a sausage; four arms grasp it perpendicularly, forming an “E” with an extra line.
— Samantha Friedman, Endless Anagrams: Hans Bellmer and Anna Gaskell’s Imaginary Conversation (speaking of the Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration exhibition at MoMA earlier in the year, where Gaskell’s piece was displayed)
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Robert Brownjohn, 1963. Poster for a pop art exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery, London
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Roland Penrose- Portrait of Lee Miller, ‘Which- be-Witch’, Lee Miller with body cast, known as ‘Bewitches Witch’, 1942
[from “Angels of Anarchy - Women Artists and Surrealism” edited by Patricia Allmer & Manchester City Art Gallery,2009, catalogue de exhibition held at Manchester Art Gallery, 26 september 2009 - 10 january 2010
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Roland Penrose- Portrait of Lee Miller, ‘Which- be-Witch’, Lee Miller with body cast, known as ‘Bewitches Witch’, 1942
[from “Angels of Anarchy - Women Artists and Surrealism” edited by Patricia Allmer & Manchester City Art Gallery,2009, catalogue de
exhibition held at Manchester Art Gallery, 26 september 2009 - 10 january 2010see the PDF here ]
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Untitled (Womans Lips) by Daido Moriyama, 2007
On display at the Daido Moriyama - Tights and Lips exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery, 7 September - 20 October
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