Yasumasa Morimura

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'Self Portrait, After Marilyn Monroe', gelatin silver print by Yasumasa Morimura, 1996, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
'Self Portrait, After Marilyn Monroe', gelatin silver print by Yasumasa Morimura, 1996, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
'An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring)', photograph by Yasumasa Morimura
'An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Skull Ring)', photograph by Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura (森村 泰昌, June 11, 1951 - ) is a Japanese appropriation artist. He was born in Osaka and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978. Since 1985, Yasumasa Morimura has primarily shown his work in international solo exhibitions, although he has been involved in various group exhibitions.

Yasumasa Morimura borrows images from historical artists (ranging from Edouard Manet to Rembrandt to Cindy Sherman), and inserts his own face and body into them.[1] His work engages with issues of gender,[2] and challenges both Western and Japanese notions of good taste.[3]

Among others, Morimura's exhibitions have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992), the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jouy-en-Josas, France (1993), the Hara Art Museum in Hara, Japan (1994), the Guggenheim Museum (1994), the Yokohama Museum of Art in Yokohama, Japan (1996),Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2006), and the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia (2007).

In his most recent and most extravagant reproduction, Morimura created a series of hybrid self-portraits modeled after the art of Frida Kahlo.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harumi Befu and Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe and America, Routledge, 2003, p142. ISBN 0415244129
  2. ^ Alyce Mahon, Eroticism & Art, Oxford University Press, 2005, p262. ISBN 0192801872
  3. ^ Hugh Honour, A World History of Art, Laurence King Publishing, 2005, p891. ISBN 1856694518

[edit] Bibliography

  • Morimura, Yasumasa, Daughter of art history: photographs by Yasumasa Morimura, New York, Aperture, 2003.
  • Winnipeg Art Gallery, Quotation, re-presenting history : David Buchan, Sorel Cohen, Evergon, Dany Leriche, Al McWilliams, Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, Winnipeg, Man., Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1994.

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