Ken'ichi Murata "Tenshi-shuu (angel only just looking)"

A long-awaited new photo book following "Sleeping Beauty", "Pandora's Key", "Sakashima no Lilith" and "Girl Kannon"!

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The afterimage of Eros floating in the darkness of the angel Thanatos

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When we hear the word “angel collection”, we often think that “a lot of cute angel-like models appear”, but the models do not appear as angels.

She looks like a suffering woman in a Renaissance painting.

"Angel-like things" appear rather as absolutes, bystanders, shadows of death.

Paintings depicting Greek mythology had a strange impact on me during my adolescence.

The picture I saw is a scene where a plump maiden with long hair is in ecstasy with her hands chained to a large rock.

In the boy's disorganized mind, the ecstatic beauty floating in the darkness of the gloomy Thanatos became an incomprehensible afterimage of Eros.

This “Angel Collection” is the result of decades of maturing.

--Kenichi Murata

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By adding feathers, horns and mushrooms, Murata may be trying to transform his models into androgynous beings.

-- Kotaro Iizawa (photo critic)

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Models: Luna Tsukino, Toko Morinomiya, Nano Nana, Mitsu Maria, Asuka Amane (in order of page appearance)

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★From November 9th (Friday) to 25th (Sunday), 2018, a photo exhibition "Descendants of Miko" will be held at Jimbocho Gallery in Jimbocho, Tokyo!

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"This book will be on sale at the venue!"

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★ Kenichi Murata [HP]

■ Main solo exhibitions

1996.9 "Rowdy Princesses" Photo Exhibition / Kanda, Tokyo Delta Mirage (Construction: First solo exhibition by Kotaro Iizawa)

1998.5 "Rowdy Princesses" Photo Exhibition / Gallery Isis, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto

1998.10 Solo exhibition / Keibunsha, Enfer, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto

2000.10 "Princess's Ark" / Shinsaibashi, Osaka Gallery Nadar

2003.6 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu

2003.10 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" / Kyoto Neutron

2006.2 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" Publication Commemoration / Ginza, Tokyo, Span Art Gallery

2006.5 "KEN-ICHI MURATA" / Rome Mondo Bizarro

2007.11 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" Publication Commemoration / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu

2007.4 "KEN-ICHI MURATA" / Rome Mondo Bizarro

2009.4 ``Muma of the library'' / Kyoto Wright Shokai

2009.10 "Photographer in the Attic" / Ginza, Tokyo Gallery Miliu

2010.10 "Shadow Tale" / Berlin His Abnormal Gallery

2011.5 "Magic living in a girl" / Kyoto Light Shokai

2011.6 "Magic that lives in a girl" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2013.6 Kenichi Murata Photobook "Sleeping Beauty" Commemorative Exhibition / Jinbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2014.6 "Shoujo Kannon Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2014.10 "Kenichi Murata coloring retrospective exhibition" / Kodenma-cho, Tokyo Miura Jiro Gallery

2015.5 "Lilith in the Mirror" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2015.11 "Kogare no Shoujo" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2016.4 ``Girl in the Spring Breeze'' / Otsu Gallery, Osaka

2016.5 "Viewing the artist's 20th anniversary from an angle" exhibition / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2016.11 "Travels of My unconscious Kenichi Murata 'Genealogy of Witches' Publication Commemorative Exhibition" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2017.6 "Shojo Kannon" Publishing Commemorative Exhibition - The Girl as Goddess Kannon / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2017.11 "Collection of Angels" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

2018.6 "Adventure with penguins" / Jimbocho Gallery, Jimbocho, Tokyo

■ Major group exhibitions

1998.2 Two-person exhibition with Mr. Jun Nakamura / Art Space Bireiki, Shibuya, Tokyo

2010.1 Group Exhibition / Mondo Bizarro, Rome

2010.7 Group Exhibition / Berlin Tacheles

2010.9 Group Exhibition / Poland Abnormal Gallery

2012.10 Two person exhibition with Kotaro Iizawa / Jimbocho Gallery, Tokyo

2013.3 "Alice Fantasy Kitan" / Bunkamura Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo

■ Publications

1997 "Contemporary Remix Manyoshu/SONG OF LIFE" (Mitsumura Suiko Shoin)

1998 "Red Fish" ~Aja Photobook~ (Seisei Publishing)

1998 "Red fish" ~ Aja CD liner notes (Tokuma Shoten)

2005.5 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)

2006 Anthology photo book "The New Erotic Photography" (TASCHEN)

2007.9 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" published (Edition Reuss)

2009.11 Anthology art book "Declaration of New Japanese Aestheticism" (Hakuraku)

2009.10 Anthology photo book "New Nude Photography" (nEgoist)

2010.9 "Naked PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)

2012.4 "UPSKIRT VOYEUR" (Edition Reuss)

2013.6 "Sleeping Princess" (Atelier Third)

2014.2 "Pandora's Key" (Atelier Third)

2015.4 "Sakashima no Lilith" (Atelier Third)

2016.5 "Secret Dreams of Erotic Princess" (Edition Reuss)

2016.10 "Genealogy of Witches" (Genkosha)

2017.5 "Girl Kannon" (Atelier Third)

Published in other magazines

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B5 size, 96 pages, 3,200yen (consumption tax not included)