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Yasumasa Morimura

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.

Art, Invisible, Looks, Things, Unrecognized, World
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Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait. . . self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well. . . an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.

Deny, Era, Eras, Interest, Photography, Self

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

Art, Fun, Want, Way

"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.

Art, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Level, Understand, World

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".

Borders, Life, Life And Death, Our World, Putting, Separate

I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.

Artist, Artists, Came, Creating, Morimura, Opposites
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