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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. This photo is from the 2015 Series "Monstrous Paradise" by Nobuyoshi Araki.
The title "Monstrous Paradise" and the images arranged and created by him refers to how Araki sees and experienced life in Tokyo.
This work was published by the European Cultural Center in 2018 in the Special Limited Edition Book, PSAP #11 titled: "Monstrous Paradise". The title was printed in Japanese on the cover. This photo has been exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale by the European Cultural Centre.
For the series "Monstrous Paradise", Araki made in total 200 different photos. 122 photos have been published in his Special Edition book, but only 40 different photos from this series have been printed in a larger size. This photo is no. 143 from the series "Monstrous Paradise". Although Araki photos are normally always printed in an open edition, in this large size there have been printed only six, the edition number is embossed in the paper and in the certificate of Authenticity. This photo is printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl 320 gr/m2, the best paper possible for this type of photography. The paper is 60x70 cm, the image itself is 50×62 cm. 67237093