“Tombeau Tokyo” Nobuyoshi Araki × Guimet Museum

Chanel Nexus Hall

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Artists

Nobuyoshi Araki

Consistently at the forefront of his art over years as one of Japan’s leading photographers, Nobuyoshi Araki has created a unique photographic realm that draws on his unconventional views on life death to vividly depict life in its myriad manifestations, via an intriguing array of subjects including voluptuous flowers, bondage nudes, his beloved Tokyo streets, the skies he has gazed upon while thinking of his late wife, and his cat Chiro, constant companion through all his highs and lows.
Araki also has an enthusiastic following overseas, last year standing a major high-profile exhibition of his work - “ARAKI” - at the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts or MNAAG, in Paris, Europe’s largest gallery specializing in Asian art. This show served as a retrospective of his 50-year career, and debut for his latest work, Tombeau Tokyo. Reflecting on Araki’s life as a photographer with an intense awareness of death acquired from the experience of serious illness, Tombeau Tokyo is extraordinarily valuable in terms of understanding Nobuyoshi Araki as he is today.
As well as marking the Japanese debut of Tombeau Tokyo, this exhibition will present photographs from the late Edo period and Meiji era selected by Araki himself from the photographic collections of the MNAAG. The plan is also to unveil new work shot by Araki specifically for the exhibition.
This latest work showing whrere the practice of Nobuyoshi Araki - still devoting his life to photography in his late 70s - is at right now, plus a superb selection of valuable vintage photographs giving today’s viewers an intriguing insight into Japanese culture in the second half of the 19th century should not be missed.

Schedule

Jun 22 (Thu) 2017-Jul 23 (Sun) 2017