Japanese Artist Fumie Sasabuchi reworks the pages of fashion magazines and deconstructs the perception of a perfect physique and plays a lot with the subject of death. She uses this tool to freely explore an underlying surface, therefore creating hybrid body images in which promotional aesthetic is fused with material naturalistic anatomical study. Fumie Sasabuchi comments on how our skin naturally protects our body.
The manipulation of the modern visual world represents, in the 21st Century, an accepted magnitude. However, there are still very clear boundaries with regards to what is allowed to be shown. The subject of death remains as one of many taboos in Western culture. Fumie Sasabuchi unlocks the repressed visual world and reveals a new concept of beauty. Via ZinkBlog See more on Artnet
Fumie Sasabuchi
Galerie Zink Berlin
01. November – 20. December 2008
www.galeriezink.de
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December 6th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I’m no KAWS fan, but come on, man.
December 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Nick, Im agree that there is a lil something, but her death character are way more real than Kaws Illustrations – also she using realistic colors, not bright pink and neon yellow, and she mixed it with fashion editorial..Which make it definitely different than Kaws…
December 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I dig it.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Creative, but is this supposed to sell clothes, or is it just plain fashion photography? If it is supposed to sell clothes, I’m afraid the morbid makeup would seem like a mere gimmick for clothes that really look quite plain.
On the other hand, if it is plain fashion photography… this certainly stimulates my creativity.
December 7th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Sol,
Its not suppose to sell clothes, and its not make as well,
Fumie is re-working fashion editorials…
December 9th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Oh snap! He used Anna Maria Jagodzinska’s editorial. Considering Anna J’s drastic weight loss, this zombie art is really fitting.