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Tokyo-based artist Seiji Yonehara brings
his disturbing and complex portrayal of human sexuality to a new exhibition,
Sad Songs Make You Feel Good, at the NAKAOCHIAI Gallery starting May 23rd.
Yonehara himself says
he draws from images he captures in his daily life. This series
of silkscreens explores the relationship between the spiritual,
the primitive, and images from Japanese life - a bamboo forest,
or an old temple, a tatami room and so on. He says it`s the smell,
or the memory of the smell, that brings out the sexuality in
his latest work.
Yonehara also portrays
images of children for the purpose of highlighting, in his words,
his own adolescent turmoil. He says he hopes he can find empathy
in his work. It`s this self-discovery about the causal-link between
guilt and sex that we can find here.
Gallery Open Hours : Sunday and Public Holiday
12:00 - 17:00 and by appointment
Phone : 03-5988-7830
E-mail : info@nakaochiaigallery.com
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