When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I … - Yasumasa Morimura

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Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

Yasumasa Morimura

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

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Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

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"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion. " This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

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By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

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