MURATA Ken'ichi "Pandora's key" <low stock>

Beyond the forbidden door that opened in the previous work "Sleeping Princess ~Another Tale of Princess"――

Kenichi Murata, a photographer who continues to explore the taboo Eros, releases the innocent mind and body of the special model Nana Nano with a secret key.

From May 2012 to October 2013, this is a collection of photographs of the special model Nano Nana over the course of a year and a half!

In a complete change from the colored photo series "Sleeping Beauty", this is a digital drawing, focusing on the model rather than the overall atmosphere.

The format is also B5, which is one size larger than the previous A5.

You can enjoy the work in a powerful size!

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Excessive things are reminiscent of the opposite world.

Fertility with death.

For example, French prehistoric scholar Leroy-Gourand and others have estimated that a single line (scar) inflicted on an animal simultaneously represents a sexual symbol (female genitalia).

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In the photo, she looks like she's holding death.

Her exposed female genitals look like animal scars.

What was the photographer thinking while taking the picture?

--Keiji Ueshima (religious anthropologist)

The secret story behind the shooting of this book is now available on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdHV9mW98yU&feature=youtu.be

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* Pre-sale at "Seven-person Nano Nana Exhibition" to be held at Jimbocho Gallery from February 7th (Friday) to 23rd (Sunday), 2014

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Kenichi Murata Profile

■ Solo exhibition

1996.9 "Rough Princesses" photo exhibition

(Kanda Delta Mirage / Composition: Kotaro Iizawa)

1998.5 "Rough Princesses" photo exhibition

(Gallery Isis, Kyoto)

10 Kenichi Murata Exhibition (Kyoto Keibunsha, Enfer)

2000.10 "Princess's Ark"

(Gallery Nadar, Osaka)

2003.4 "Princesses in Abandoned Garden" (Gallery Nadar, Osaka)

6 "Girl God Living in Darkness"

(Ginza Gallery Miliu)

10 "Shoujo God Living in Darkness" (Kyoto Neutron)

2006.2 Commemorating the publication of "JAPANESE PRINCESS"

(Ginza Span Art Gallery)

5 "KEN-ICHI MURATA"

(Mondo Bizarro, Rome)

10 "Labyrinth Sleeping Princess" (Osaka Subterraneans)

2007.9 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" publication commemoration

(Otsu Gallery, Osaka)

11 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" publication commemoration

(Ginza Gallery Miliu)

2008.4 "KEN-ICHI MURATA"

(Mondo Bizarro, Rome)

2009.4 "Muma in the Bookcase" (Kyoto Light Shokai)

10 "Photographer in the Attic"

(Ginza Gallery Miliu)

2010.9 "Lyrical Incident"

(Osaka Cafe Echo)

10 "Shadow Tale"

(Berlin Abnormal Gallery)

11 "Photographer in the Attic" (Otsu Gallery, Osaka)

2011. 5 "Magic Living in a Girl" (Kyoto Light Shokai)

6 "Magic Living in a Girl" (Gallery Jimbocho, Jimbocho)

2012.8 "UPSKIRT VOYEUR" Publication Commemorative Exhibition

(Ginza Span Art Gallery)

12 "Kinoko no Mori Upskirt Voyuer Publication Commemorative Exhibition"

(Otsu Gallery, Osaka)

2013. 6 "Sleeping Princess ~ Another Tale of Princess"

Publication Commemorative Exhibition (Jimbocho Jimbocho Gallery)

2013. 10 "Sleeping Princess ~ Another Tale of Princess"

Publication Commemorative Exhibition (Otsu Gallery, Osaka)

■Group exhibition

1998.2 Two-person exhibition with Jitsu Nakamura

(Shibuya Art Space Bireiki)

2009.10 Group exhibition

(Berlin Abnormal Gallery)

2010.1 Group exhibition (Mondobisaro, Rome)

7 Group Exhibition (Berlin Tacheles)

2012.10 Two person exhibition with Kotaro Iizawa (Jimbocho Gallery)

A three-person exhibition with Mr. Jun Nakamura and Mr. Atsushi Tani

(Osaka Art Space Abanjin)

2013. 11 Two-person exhibition with Mr. Tama Murata (Kyoto Light Shokai)

■ Publications

1997 "Contemporary Remix Manyoshu

・SONG OF LIFE” (published by Mitsumura Suiko Shoin)

1998 "Red fish" ~ Aja CD liner notes

(Tokuma Shoten)

"Red Fish" ~Aja Photo Poetry Collection~

(published by Seisei Publishing)

2005.5 "JAPANESE PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)

2006 Anthology Photo Book

"The New Erotic Photography" (TASCHEN)

2007.9 "PRINCESS OF DESIRE" (Edition Reuss)

2009.11 Anthology art book "New Japan Aestheticism Declaration"

(Hakuraku)

　　　10 anthology photo book

"New Nude Photography" (nEgoist)

2010.9 "Naked PRINCESS" (Edition Reuss)

2012.4 "UPSKIRT VOYEUR" (Edition Reuss)

2013. 6 "Sleeping Princess ~ Another Tale of Princess"

(Atelier Third)

Published in other magazines

Kenichi Murata HP "Sleeping Beauty" www.ken-murata.com

B5 size, 48 pages, 2,800yen (consumption tax not included)