S&M, Cannibalism in Museum Show Provoke Backlash in Japan
Bloomberg.com | Jan 31, 2013
An exhibition of paintings showing cannibalism and dismemberment is stirring a debate on art censorship in Japan, the home of violent manga comics.
Aida Makoto’s work at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum last night provoked protests from a Japanese organization called People Against Pornography and Sexual Violence. The group wrote to museum director Nanjo Fumio demanding that the images be removed because the museum was showing sexual, misogynistic material.
“It’s not so bad compared to manga and anime on the Internet,” Fumio said in an interview.
More..."Non-thinker"(2012)by Aida Makoto. More than 100 works spanning two decades since his entrance in the international art scene are on view in "Monument for Nothing" at the Mori Art Musuem in Tokyo.
Refer to: mori.art.museum/english/contents/aidamakoto...
