Yasumasa Morimura: Requiem for the XX Century
at Ikkan Art International, Singapore
January 11 - February 25, 2012
at Ikkan Art International, Singapore
January 11 - February 25, 2012
MORIMURA YASUMASA: REQUIEM FOR THE XX CENTURY
Self-Portraits in Motion
Ikkan Art Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo show in Singapore for the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Morimura Yasumasa. This exhibition showcases moving image and photographic works from his Requiem series which recently toured museums in Japan.
Morimura (b.1951, Osaka), series Daughter of Art History, 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 canon. His unsettling deconstruction of iconic images 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.
For more information, please visit the following link:
Ikkan Art Gallery website
Self-Portraits in Motion
Ikkan Art Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo show in Singapore for the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Morimura Yasumasa. This exhibition showcases moving image and photographic works from his Requiem series which recently toured museums in Japan.
Morimura (b.1951, Osaka), series Daughter of Art History, 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 canon. His unsettling deconstruction of iconic images 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.
For more information, please visit the following link:
Ikkan Art Gallery website
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