Yasumasa Morimura
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| From: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/yasumasa_morimura_marilyn_monroe1.htm |
Biography
Born in 1951, Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Osaka
EDUCATION
1985
Columbia University, New York
1982
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia
Type of work
self-portrait renderings in photography, performance and
video.
Background
Yasumasa Morimura (b.1951, Osaka) appropriates universally well
known images derived from art history, mass media and pop culture to create
unconventional and bold self-portrait renderings in photography, performance
and video. Through the extensive use of props, costumes, make-up and digital
manipulation, Morimura masterfully transforms himself into recognizable
subjects that punctuate the western cultural cannon. His series include works
based on seminal paintings by artists such as Frida Kahlo, Van Gogh, Velazquez
or Goya and on pictorial sources from history and the mass media. His
unsettling deconstruction of iconic images and masterpieces challenges the
assumptions already placed on such works/images while commenting on Japan's
complex and conflicting absorption of Western culture. His ability to satirize
and simultaneously create an homage of his source material is what makes
Morimura's work particularly forceful and effective.
Reason for choosing Yasumasa Morimura
Western arts has giant influence in the world. How does it
influence the Japanese arts? During the cultural exchange and arts absorption,
how did the Japanese artists position themselves in these two streams? Morimura's
work shows the conflicting stance of a Japanese artist in the converging
Western and Japanese arts and culture. It is interesting to read his works and
think about these questions.
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