Tokyo Diaries XI

A mental travel preparation.



1. Eikō Hosoe Barakei, 1961-1962
2. Tamotsu Yatō Mishima Yukio, 1967

Theoretically following the man who died for his genius, insanity and sexual identity. While examining various possible aspects, it is radicalness that attracts this cultural tourism.
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Art Interiors VI

Artworks Johannes Spehr

The naive interiors of Johannes Spehr are inhabited by (half-naked) bodies and builders. Executing naughty practices and performing routined acts. And while doing so, they create chaos, fire, holes, stains and puddles. Demolition, a new kind of home decoration.
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Art Interiors V

Artworks Ken Price

In his Americina interior utopia, Ken Price depicts 'waiting rooms' as the suburban dream of 'things to come'. The protagonists are absent, somewhere outside the Hollywood Hills. Waiting to be discovered - or to be rescued from their boredom.
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A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture X

1. Unknown
2. Andy Warhol Tongue In Ear, 1980
3. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
4. Barazoku Magazine 1971 - 2004
5. Gengoroh Tagame Gunji, 2005
6. Sadao Hasegawa Paradise Vision, 1996

Sex and comic strips or 'Outline Porn'. What begun with the introvert drawings of a young Jean Cocteau, a homoerotic dreamscape, has found its culmination in Hard Yaoi. In that sense, Warhol's idea of repeatability has turned into hardcore mass-comsumption.
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The Nude Portrait IV

category f.1) interior as group portrait

1. Richard Hamilton Hotel du Rhone, 2005
2. The Sims Nude Clothing
3. The Sims Gay Couple

category f.2) standing, reflection in mirror

4. Richard Hamilton Descending Nude, 2006
5. The Sims Untitled (Sims 3)

category f.3) sitting, at desk

6. Richard Hamilton An Annunciation, 2006
7. Second Life Reasonable Desires Underwear

category f.4) leaving the shower


8. Richard Hamilton A Mirrorical Return, 1998
9. The Sims Nude Patch (Sims 3)

category f.5) male nude, posing

10. Richard Hamilton Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, 1956
11. Second Life Laguna Bay Nude Beach
12. Second Life Angelus Nude

The digital nude. The virtual nude. The rendered 3D nude. Resulting in a fictive hyper-realist portrait of the non-existent. Psyche portraits, phantom portraits, wet fantasy depictions.
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