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    Untitled (Self-portrait) by Nobuyoshi Araki – OstLicht

    Nobuyoshi Araki (*1940)

    Untitled (Self-portrait), Japan, Tokyo, 1985


    7800 €
    incl. 13% VAT
    Item number 085-02594

    The »mame-otoko« (bean man) is a historical element of shunga that first appeared as a stylistic device in the genre in 1712. It is the figure of a small, silent observer who witnesses the erotic scenes in the picture. The bean man is said to be a citizen of Edo (today's Tokyo) who wants to study the sexual life there in detail. To do so, he receives a miracle pill from the god of love that makes him immortal and young, but also shrinks him to the size of a bean. And so he wanders about observing the love life of Japan.

    Araki resurrects the motif of the »mame-otoko« in the photographic present by staging himself in his settings  - as in this image, in which he deliberately places himself in the corner as a silent observer.

    • Gelatin silver print on baryta, print date: 2005

    • Image dimensions 32,1 x 40,3 cm (32,1 x 40,3 inch)

    • Object dimensions 35,5 x 42,9 cm (35,5 x 42,9 inch)

    • Mounting, Framing Mounted in black wooden frame c. 50 x 60 cm (included in the price)

    • Condition
      Double weight paper, semi-matte surface

    • Annotations
      Signed by the photographer in pencil on the reverse

    • Literature
      Nobuyoshi Araki, Araki. Tokyo Lucky Hole, Taschen: Cologne 1997; Nobuyoshi Araki, Self-Life-Death, London: Phaidon 2005, p. 430/31.

    • Contemporary Current Exhibition

      Prints / Japanese Photography / Akt /


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