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Medium: Archival pigment print on fine art paper, signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist on verso.
Editions:
- Small Format: Limited to 8 + 2 AP [Available: #5 – 8]
- Medium Format: Limited to 12 + 2 AP [Available: #4 – 12]
- Large Format: Limited to 7 + 2 AP [Available: #2 – 7]
- XL Format: Limited to 3 + 2 AP [Available: #3/3]
- Special Edition: Limited to 1 + 2 AP
Sizes:
- Small Format: 76.0cm x 50.0cm
- Medium Format: 114.0cm x 76.0cm
- Large Format: 152.0cm x 101.0cm
- XL Format: 228.0cm x 152.0cm
- Special Edition: 498.0cm x 239.0cm
Good To Know: Artwork is shipped directly from the artist’s studio.
Series: Japan Diaries 2013-Present
Arty-Fact: The highly staged and melodramatic images conjure many references: 1950s Japanese cinema, the photographs of Nobuyoshi Araki, Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, and the erotic imagery of Ero Guro paintings. As outside observers, Formento & Formento stylized images explore the dichotomies that embody modern Japan – blurring the aesthetics between tradition and the ultra-modern, fantasy and reality. The captivating tableaus exude a sense of tension, melancholy, and a quiet unease. Each image from “Japan Diaries” exists as if it were a still taken from a Japanese noir film, each solitary figure yearning for something unknown.
