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YASUMASA MORIMURA (1951 - )
Aimai-no-bi [Ambiguous Beauty]. Color offset photolithograph on a folding paper fan with a wooden monture, the open fan measuring 292x508 mm; 11 1/2x20 inches, the box 324x67x35 mm; 12 3/4x2 5/8x1 3/8 inches, with Morimura's printed signature on fan verso; enclosed in a bespoke silkscreened wooden box. 1995.
This multiple was commissioned by the Peter Norton Foundation.
Morimura, who is well-known for transforming himself into Western icons as a critique on gender and culture norms, has here appropriated the iconic Tom Kelley photograph of Marilyn Monroe (1949) that was published in Playboy magazine's very first issue in 1953. The fan as format allows the alluring nude figure to appear and disappear at will, implicating the gaze of the holder.
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