MORIMURA Yasumasa – ShugoArts

MORIMURA Yasumasa Works and Info

Self-Portraits of Youth (Shunsuke Matsumoto / Where Am I Standing? 1)

2016/2018, chromogenic print, 160x124cm, ed.5 [15855]

Self-Portraits through Art History (Two Caravaggios / David Painting Goliath)

2016, chromogenic print, transparent medium, 158x119cm, ed.5 [15856]

Self-Portraits through Art History (Van Eyck in a Red Turban)

2016 /2018, chromogenic print, transparent medium, 32x25cm, ed.10 [15852]

Self-Portraits through Art History (Dürer's Hand Is Another Face)

2016/ 2018, chromogenic print, transparent medium, 66x48cm, ed.10 [15851]

Self-Portraits through Art History (What Leonardo's Face Says)

2016 /2018, Japanese paper, piezograph, 32x21cm, ed.10 [15849]

Self-Portrait through Art History(Van Gogh/Blue Flame)

2016/2018, inkjet print on canvas, 65x54.5cm, ed.10 [15079]

Vermeer Study: What to Pour into My Town

2019, pigment print on canvas, 45.5x41cm, frame: 72x67cm, ed.10 [14494]

Une Moderne Olympia 2018

2017-2018, chromogenic print, transparent medium, frame, 210x300cm (frame: 325x235cm), ed.5 [13055]

Boys' Kafka

2016, chromogenic print, 145x111cm, ed.7 [12988]

In praise of Velásquez: Distinguished ones in confinement

2013, chromogenic print, 60×50cm, ed.10 [10807]

An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns)

2001, chromogenic print, 120x96cm, ed.10 [05880]

Self-portrait/ White Marilyn

1996, type C print, 120x95cm, ed.10 [10788]

Self-portrait as Marilyn in Tokyo University, Komaba campus

1995/2008, gelatin silver print, 137x137cm, ed.7 [07958]

A Requiem: Unexpected Visitors / 1945, Japan

2010, chromogenic print, 187.5x150cm, ed.5 [08849]

Mona Lisa in its Origin

1998, chromogenic print, image: 77x54.5cm, frame: 99x76.5cm, ed.10 [04550]

Mona Lisa in its Pregnancy

1998, chromogenic print, image: 77x54.5cm, frame: 99x76.5cm, ed.10 [04550]

Mona Lisa in the Third Place

1998, chromogenic print, image: 77x54.5cm, frame: 99x76.5cm, ed.10 [04550]

Self Portrait (Myself as a Stage)

2003, chromogenic print, ed.10: sheet: 60.0x240.0cm frame: 64.0x244.0x4.5cm, ed.18: sheet: 40.2x126.4cm, image 13x113cm [05403]

Self-portrait(Actress)/after Brigitte Bardot 2

1996, chromogenic print, 120x95cm, ed.10 [11655]

White Darkness

1994/2008, gelatin silver print, sheet: 168x135cm frame:183x150x6cm, ed.7 [07860]

Portrait (Shounen 1, 2, 3)

1988, chromogenic print, transparent medium, frame, 209x118.5cm each, frame: 227x137cm each, 3pcs, ed.5 [15103]

MORIMURA-AT-MUSEUM（M@M） Installation view

2018, MORIMURA-AT-MUSEUM, photo by Kazuo Fukunaga [E00628]

overview: Born in Osaka, Japan in 1951. Currently lives and works in Osaka. Ever since Morimura created his self-portrait photograph in 1985, disguising himself as Van Gogh in one of his self-portrait paintings, the artist has incessantly produced “self-portrait-like artworks” where Morimura alters himself into “others” beyond time, race and gender. While maintaining his practice to become someone other than himself, the artist gazes at the indisputable fact that he is still himself and continues to question its meaning. Understanding both the contemporary and historical framework and inserting his own analysis of others, their artistic achievements and historical events, Morimura continues to employ his own body as well as photography, video and performance into his art practice, which has influenced many.
Selected solo exhibitions: My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto, 2022; Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Morimura Yasumasa A Gift of the Sea, M-Style Morimura Yasumasa’s Auto-Mytholo, Artizon Museum, Tokyo, 2021; Yasumasa Morimura: Ego Obscura, Tokyo 2020, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2020; YASUMASA MORIMURA: EGO OBSCURA, Japan Society, New York, 2018; My Chronicle 1985 - 2018, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2018; Yasumasa Morimura. The history of the self-portrait, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 2017; The Self-Portraits of YASUMASA MORIMURA: My Art, My Story, My History, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2016; Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2014; LAS MENINAS RENACEN DE NOCHE, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2013; Yasumasa Morimura: Rembrandt Room Revisited, Hara Museum, Tokyo, 2013; Selected publications: Jigazonoyukue, Kobunsha; Utsukushiittenandaro? Bijutsunosusume, Rironsha; Bijutsunokaibogakukogi, Chikuma gakugei bunko. Opened his own museum named M@M in Osaka, 2018.
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texts / movies: MORIMURA Yasumasa Library
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topics: Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies: Works from the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections

24 March 2023 – 8 January 2024