This artist's book brings together photographic images of Japanese pleasure houses and a collection of erotic sculptures.
Tsuzuki presents a photographic survey of typical Japanese “pleasure houses” likely to disappear soon: love hotels, imekura, hihokan, wax. More than just a simple documentation work, Tsuzuki highlights the sexual fantasy and desire that governed the building of these popular places and gives them an artistic status. This artist's book takes the form of 5 A3 sheets in a plastic folder. The sheets can be folded into a 28 page booklet reproducing photographs by the artist. The 5th sheet features texts by the artist on front and a schematic drawing to realize your own cover on backside.
Published following the artist' exhibitions at Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris, and Cneai, Chatou, in 2003.
Claiming to be a journalist rather than an artist, Japanese photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki (born 1956) explores the private and shady sides of urban areas. In the early nineties, he published Tokyo Style, an intimate portrait of the Japanese capital. Tsuzuki also sought to deconstruct Western “cliches” in a series of alternative touristic guides of the United States, Europe and Japan.
