Meiro Koizumi is best known for his video art, but here’s a peek into his collage work. By painting onto magazine pages he changes XXX into G-rated scenes, but the transformation is never quite complete. Whether his women are depicted with pretty dresses in candy-coloured settings or as grey twin towers, there’s always a hint of the image’s naughty past showing through beneath the surface. If censorship was always this artful, I’d be all for it.
Koizumi’s first solo museum exhibition is on at Mori Gallery, Tokyo until November 8.
Profane Prisms…
by artist Koizumi Meiro
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