Paths Towards Modernity IV

A fictive documentary in art and fashion.





















1. Tadanori Yokoo Fuji Junko, 1991
2. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
3. Tadanori Yokoo Throw Away Your Books, 1967
4. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
5. Tadanori Yokoo Nishikicho, 2004
6. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
7. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
8. Inez Van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 1998
9. Tadanori Yokoo Genka (Illusory Flowers), 1975
10. Tadanori Yokoo Genka (Illusory Flowers), 1975
11. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2009
12. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
13. Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2014
14. Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2009
15. Tadanori Yokoo Genka (Illusory Flowers), 1975

At first glance, Yohji Yamamoto's latest collection felt like a departure.Towards tattoo and tribal, psychodelia and visual shock. Recurrent motifs: skulls, roses, serpents. In fact, it was not a change of methodology, nor psychology. Instead of covering everything in black dye/ink, the inner essence and tradition of Japanese visual culture was made visible. Yamamoto revealed himself (as friend of Tadanori Yokoo); of course only to those who remember.
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Poster Boys (Without Beuys)

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin V Best: Five Years of V Magazine, 2005

Just like setcards from a model agency's development department, the cast of a new scripted reality show, or the long-overdue indie boy band - we are introduced to three unusually handsome actors headlining the greatest of all fashion plays.
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The Nude Portrait III x Portraits Of An Artist IV

category e.1) golden shower

1. Rick Owens Self-portrait, i-D Magazine 2002
2. Jürgen Teller Louis XV, 2005

category e.2) distorted body

3. Francis Bacon Study for self-portrait, 1976

category e.3) frontal poet

4. Don Herron Robert Mapplethorpe, 1978
5. Vinoodh Matadin Hans van Manen, 1986

category e.4) the couple


6. Gilbert & George Naked Suits, 1994
7. Jeff Koons Ponies, 1991

When two portrait series become one. The provocative, self-revealing depiction of nudity. Disarming every critic as there is nothing left to be exposed or taken away, the artist deletes the possibility of any scandal. Possibly, this is his most powerful creation.
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