Mixed Art Contemporary Shunga based on the theme of diversity and multifacetedness of sensitivity
- Pleasure and Reproduction
Shunga is a form of art that is not only sexually explicit but also highly artistic in its composition, color, beautiful forms, and imaginative deformation, and has influenced Impressionism and other schools of Western art.
However, the direct, graphic, and sensational depictions of sexuality are considered obscene and have attracted attention in Japan, where the risk of violating Article 175 of the Penal Code has prevented museums and art galleries from displaying them despite their artistic and historical value.
While this may indeed be a consideration for those who view sexual depictions, it is at the same time a denial of the diversity of the viewer's sensibilities. The way we perceive things is diverse because it is conceptualized according to our upbringing and experiences. Some view it sexually, some view it artistically. However, this is not limited to Shunga.
Even today, there are works that take Shunga as a motif and arrange it in a modern way, paying homage to it, but most of them only focus on obscene expressions.
If we perceive only what we can see, it may be a depiction of a sexual act.
However, the act is an act in which the ambiguous lyricism of human love and pleasure and the functionality of mating and reproduction of viruses in the human organism and body seem to coexist, and the way it is perceived depends on the viewpoint, position, and sensitivity of the people involved and bystanders. It is diverse, multifaceted, and the boundaries are blurred.
In this work, the destruction of stereotypes and the diversity and multifaceted nature of vision and thought are depicted in the motif of Shunga, which is also diverse in race, and in expression, including East and West, painting, manga, impression, abstract, cubism, and fauvism. He mixes various genres and categories to create an uncategorizable, borderless mixed art that is impressive, sometimes abstract, sometimes figurative, and sometimes looks like a person, a landscape, a still life, a virus, or a cell, depending on the viewer.
