Yasumichi Morita
Porcelain Nude (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Of all the infinite number of curves in the world, I consider those of woman's body to be the most beautiful. Representing the ideal balance between softness and solidity, the female form engenders beauty precisely because of the life teeming beneath its surface. These photographs, featuring minimalist bodies with their colors, expressions, and even the pores of their skin stripped away, raise various questions. Are they genuine bodies? Just what is "real"? For me, art is the creativity that is awakened by these questions.
As an interior designer, my day-to-day work involves cutting out angles of light and shadow. However, photography goes in the opposite direction, collapsing a three-dimensional object onto flat surface. I am conscious that this transformation is a capturing of the moment where minimalism becomes a rich delusion. In this realm, I create space by giving depth to flat surfaces. Desire to beauty, tension to sensuality; conflicting values are brought together the instant the shutter closes. Consequently, which direction we sway falls to the things we see.
AUTHOR
Designer/CEO of GLAMOROUS co., ltd.
Born in Osaka, JAPAN in 1967.
Since starting with a project in Hong Kong in 2001, he has successfully broadened his appeal to New York, London, Paris, Doha and other major cities. He has also enthusiastically been expanding his career as a designer displaying his talents across a wide variety of graphics and products.
His works include "ISETAN, The Japan Store Kuala Lumpur" based on the concept of Cool Japan in 2016, which has received high praise. Also, in Shibuya area where massive redevelopment is moving ahead once every 100 years, he completed commercial environmental design for "Tokyu Plaza Shibuya" which will open in December, 2019.
He has branched out as an artist and his solo photo exhibition has been annually held in Paris since 2015, which received high praise.
Awards: SEGD Global Design Award, A' Design Award and Competition, Design For Asia Awards, the International Hotel and Property Awards, INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY AWARDS, THE LONDON LIFESTYLE AWARDS, the Andrew Martin Interior Designers of the Year Awards etc.
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