Nobuyoshi Araki Blends Eroticism and Voyeurism Into Vast Body of Work www.juxtapoz.com

This is where we start with Nobuyoshi Araki's massive and vast body of work: Tokyo, this seemingly endless and meandering city that has no center and yet compells you to wander its streets as if in a novel that needs to be read.
When I think of Tokyo, I think of Araki and Haruki Murakami, as both their poetic and almost after-dark depictions of the city help to understand an underground energy in the city.
Currently on view at Javier Lopez & Fer Frances in Madrid is a massive of presentation of Araki's erotic works, a mixture of portraits, sex scenes, sexual explicit metaphors through flowers and overall provocateur photography.
The death of his wife in 1991 left a void that the artist sought to fill with photography, and since then he has refused to photograph anything that is not life, while discovering that every image involves a death: that of time stopped."
The show is on view through September 18, 2019.