Noritoshi Hirakawa

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Noritoshi Hirakawa (平川典俊 Hirakawa Noritoshi?) is a Japanese photographer and performance artist, who was born in 1960 in Fukuoka, Japan. He now lives and works in New York.

Hirakawa's photographs are described as having "a heavy sexual connotation"[1] and "erotic and intimate".[2] Stating that "the sexual revolution is over and the Puritans won", Hirakawa's work challenges mainstream conceptions of sexuality, and the assumption that expressions of male heterosexual desire are oppressive and objectifying.[1] His architectural photographs, unusually featuring prominent models, challenge the viewer to consider the meaning of architecture on modern urban life.[3] In 2005, a site-specific performance entitled In Search of a Purple Heart, utilising fragments of interviews from Vietnam War veterans quoted by partially nude performers, was described as an "intense compilation of atmospheres" whose author was "intent on infecting the seductive surfaces that dominate our culture [...] with the rot of our culture’s collective guilt."[4]

Noritoshi Hirakawa has exhibited his work in a variety of galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, multiple galleries in New York, Kunsthalle Vienna, the Art & Public Contemporary Art Gallery, Geneva, the Gallerie Ferdinand van Dieten in Amsterdam, and in Köln. He was invited to present his work at the SMAK, Ghent in Belgium during the group-exhibition “Casino 2001” and the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt included the work “Tokyo Dreams” in its permanent collection.[1][2][5][6]

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  1. ^ a b c Noritoshi Hirakawa. Zeno X Gallery.
  2. ^ a b Noritoshi Hirakawa - Subject. Salon 94.
  3. ^ SUBJECT: A Project of Noritoshi Hirakawa and Thom Mayne. University of Toronto Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design.
  4. ^ Joe Fyfe. Noritoshi Hirakawa: In Search of a Purple Heart. Art Critical.
  5. ^ Noritoshi Hirakawa - The Layers from Capital & Dawn of Felicity. Gallerie Ferdinand van Dieten.
  6. ^ Noritoshi Hirakawa. Art & Public.

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