This installation view shows photographic works by the Japanese artist Nobuyoshi Araki. Nine smaller formats in rows of three hang on the left wall, consisting of black and white photographs of frivolous Japanese girls in school uniforms. To the right is a large-format black-and-white photograph of a tied up woman with her upper body exposed. On the right wall is again a large-format black-and-white photograph of a young woman whose head and neck peek out of a bedspread. Next to it hang color photographs of partial views of naked women, whose intimate parts have been scratched away with a sharp object.
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    Nobuyoshi Araki – Diane Arbus – Nan Goldin

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    "A photograph is the secret of a secret. The more they communicate, the less one knows." (Diane Arbus)

    With the exhibition Nobuyoshi Araki – Diane Arbus – Nan Goldin, Sammlung Goetz presents three photographers from three generations and cultural worlds. Regardless of societal taboos, they show life as it actually is. Despite their unsparing gaze, the subjects of their photographs maintain their dignity. These photos reveal intimate, touching moments of human interaction.

    Diane Arbus is the oldest artist whose works are included in the show. She became known for her black and white portraits from those on the edges of society: the mentally disabled, the poor, prostitutes and transvestites. Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the most renowned Japanese photographers. His nude photos of schoolgirls and artistically bound models triggered great discussion about the boundaries between pornography and art. In her photographs, Nan Goldin takes up subjects like violence, sexuality and death. She uses her camera to accompany people who belong to her circle of friends often for years at a time, almost like a diary.
     

    Nobuyoshi Araki – Diane Arbus – Nan Goldin

    132 pages, 134 ill., softcover
    German/English
    1997, Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz GmbH, Hamburg
    ISBN 3-9805267-12

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    Gutai. Collection + Goetz

    – | Pinakothek der Moderne | Sammlung Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Collection)

    Since 2019, in the context of the Sammlung+ format, the Sammlung Moderne Kunst has presented artistic discoveries, new acquisitions and thematic foci in the Pinakothek der Moderne in collaboration with partners and foundations. This has led to the emergence of new perspectives on the collections, new insights into research work and the establishment of new dialogues. It is in this framework that a selection of paintings by the Japanese artist group Gutai from the Sammlung Goetz will be presented in room 23, within a series of rooms focusing on near-contemporaneous regional and German abstraction phenomena under the title “Walk the Line.”  Founded in 1954 by the abstract painter Jiro Yoshihara, Gutai was one of the 20th century’s most innovative artistic movements, which combined action, abstraction and materiality.

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