« My photo, it is my diary, that’s just it. " Nobuyoshi Araki, who is a great inventor of subjective photography in the 1970s, likes radical forms. In his photography, the truth confronts intimacy, it is far from any documentary and objective inspiration. His sophisticated imagination presents us some scenes where sex and death lead an indecent and compulsive dance. The photographer, who become a real icon in the 1990s, is drawing today dolls in his effigy. He is faithful to his maxim forever: "photography is archetypal obscenity, it is an act of furtive love, a story, a novel at the first person ".
2007: - "Into Me/Out of Me", Museum of Contemporary Art, Roma - Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin - "Oggetto", Zonca & Zonca Gallery, Milan - "Diaries (Love by Leica)", WestLicht Gallery, Vienna - "Tokyo / Sexteen 1969-1973", Pinakothek Moderne, Munich - "Self, Life, Death", Museum of Photography, Charleroi 2006: - La Fabrica, Madrid - "Shiki in me", Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo - "Painting Flowers", Jablonka Gallery, Cologne - "Tokyo / Flowers", LanghansGallery, Prague - "Self, Life, Death", Barbican Art Gallery, London 2005: - "Arakinema", Palais de Tokyo, Paris - "Polaroids", Ca’ di Fra’ Gallery, Milan - "The faces of Ishikawa", 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2004: "De Hallen", Haarlem, Holland - "Eijanaika ! Yes Futures ! Post-twentieth Century Japan", Lambert collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Avignon - "Hana Jinsei", Kitano Cultural Center, Nagano 2003: -"Tokyo Still Life", Tampere Art Museum, Finland - "Mon Journal d’été", Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris - "Strange days. New acquisitions", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2002: "All Women of the World. The World of Nobuyoshi Araki", Galleria Civica Modena, Italie 2000: "Voyage sentimental", Center of Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italia and C.N.P., Paris
Recent publications: 2005: "Nobuyoshi Araki : Self, Life, Death", Ed. Phaidon "Nobuyoshi Araki. Kaori, Reflex Art Gallery, Amsterdam 2004: "Araki, entretiens de Jérôme Sans", Ed. Taschen "Love Hotel", Ed. Denoël "Painted Flowers", Switch Shoseki Publishing Division, Tokyo 2003: "Araki, Daido Moriyama", Foundation Cartier for Contemporary Art, Paris / Actes Sud "Tokyo Travel Diary", Waizu Shuppan
