Yasumasa Morimura: One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

Morimura Yasumasasi is famous for his pictorial portraits of figures in history and art. His works have been exhibited in numerous Japanese museums, where the artist has staged his performances. Morimura's art is not resolved in the canvas, but embraces various disciplines. There is a Morimura Yasumasasi photographer, but also director, writer and theater artist. A multitude of roles that give a good idea of what the object of his search is. In fact, for about 40 years Morimura Yasumasasi has been working on the theme of the "ego" and identity, putting himself on the line. He stated that he wanted to avoid "convergence towards a fixed identity", from which derives an incessant lack of unity and a mixture of different characters, without any hierarchy. Morimura's latest works, unpublished and recent, exhibited in the show, are organized in five sections each dedicated to a different character. Morimura dresses up as Tadaoto Kainoshō, the famous Japanese artist, as Napoleon, as Kafka and as Lu Xun. He also takes on the appearance of the characters painted by Miró. In a total of 14 works, the Morimura Yasumasa's multiple identities silently and joyfully explode with dissonance.