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Nobuyoshi ArakiFlower Rondeau #026 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese Photography, Flowers, Nature1997
1997
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Nobuyoshi ARAKI (*1940, Japan)
Flower Rondeau #026, 1997
RP Direct print
Sheet 50.8 x 60 cm (20 x 23 5/8 in.)
Print only
– Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940) is a Tokyo-based photographer. Araki completed his studies at Chiba University’s Department of Photography, Painting and Engineering with a focus on the study of film and photography. His photographic project Satchin earned him the prestigious Taiyo Award in 1964, shortly after he had joined the advertising agency Dentsu, where he worked until 1972. At Dentsu he met his wife Yoko, to whom he paid homage in Sentimental Journey, a photographic record of their honeymoon published in 1971. Eros and thanatos (sex and death) has been a central theme in Araki’s work; an abiding fascination with female genitalia and women’s bodies in Japanese bondage, flowers, food, his cat, faces and Tokyo street scenes.
– Flower Rondeau
Flowers preyed on Araki’s imagination as symbols of Eros and Thanatos since his childhood. Growing up nearby Jyokanji temple in downtown Tokyo, a place where spirits of courtesans from Yoshiwara were enshrined, Araki used to watch the cut flowers offered at the graveyards. To Araki, arranging decayed flowers is a form of revival, and photography records the beauty of brevity eternally.
Nobuyoshi Araki once observed that “to make what is dynamic static is a kind of death. The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death. Also, I think about death when I photograph, which comes out in the print.” In Flower Rondeau, one immediately notices the contrast between life and death, animated by a half-closed flower exposed against a dark blue backdrop. The veins of the flower emphasize its vitality, while its closed and withering petals demonstrates its fragility—and the fragility of life itself.
Araki’s floral still lifes can be viewed alongside the photographer’s kinbaku portraits as erotic and sexual visions. The opening and transparent petals are captured in a state of revealing, comparable to the various degrees of undress that his female models are shown. Flower Rondeau makes clear that the flower is a reproductive organ by highlighting both the stamen and carpal. As much as flowers die and decay they are also wombs wherein new life begins and the future materializes.
Literature S. Jerome, Araki, Cologne, 2002, p. 110 (illustrated)
– Nobuyoshi Araki, Japaese Photography, Abstract, Close-up, Colour, Flowers, Detail, Nature, Erotic, Sexuality, Form
- Creator:Nobuyoshi Araki (1940, Japanese)
- Creation Year:1997
- Dimensions:Height: 20.01 in (50.8 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Zurich, CH
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU128017822312
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