Yoshifumi Hayashi
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Yoshifumi Hayashi (1948, Fukuoka, Japan) is an artist of erotica. He is associated with the Mondo Bizarro art gallery in Italy. [1] [Apr 2007]
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Career
In 1974 he moved to Paris, where, he began to produce pencil drawings. At first his main influence was the metaphysical world of De Chirico, but soon his focus shifted to the lower half of the female anatomy...
Hayashi's art comes straight from the darkest depths of his subconscious and the artist lays his innermost paranoias, fetishes and obsessions. Despite this profoundly personal quality his work is also highly and objectively erotic. [2]
Further than this, little is known about Japanese erotic artist Yoshifumi Hayashi. Apart from Thierry Zalic's site, not much is available online. I encountered the work of Hayashi in Paris when I was seventeen. I was browsing a bargain bin of books right across the centre Pompidou. His work 'struck me' immediately but I was too shy to buy it at the time.
The work of Hayashi was also my first exposuer with the seductive art of Japanese bondage.
When I was in my early twenties, I found a movie by Walerian Borowczyk (1980, Hyper Erotic Art: Hayashi), consisting of the a camera panning over the work of Hayashi, accompanied by 'classical' music.
Later still, the Divazine magazines shed some light on his work and some other erotic literature. But a major publisher has not yet made a book about him. Long overdue in my opinion.
Yoshifumi Hayashi subject matter is the human body.
External links
Hayashi n’offre pas la peau
Hayashi n’offre pas la peau, il réaménage l’interne. Il trifouille, comme l’enfant ouvre le réveil pour en examiner les entrailles, et remonte tout en désordre au gré de sa sûre fantaisie. Bâtir son rêve, même nauséabond. [...]
EXHIBITIONS
- 1978 Galerie Jaque Casanova, Paris (solo show)
- 1982 Galerie Jaque Casanova, Paris (solo show)
- 1988 Galerie Jaque Casanova, Paris (solo show)
- 1991 Galerie Mirage, Tokyo (solo show)
- 1993 Galerie Mirage, Tokyo (solo show)
- 1994 Galerie Les Larmes d’Eros, Paris (solo show)
- 1996 Striped House Museum of Art, Tokyo (solo show)
- 1997 FIAC, Paris
- 1998 Koju gallery, Kyoto (solo show)
- 1998 Azzlo gallery, Tokyo (solo show)
- 1998 Todd Kaplan, Los Angeles (solo show)
- 2003 "Les Foyers Infinis", Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Bologna (solo show)
- 2004 Musée de l’Erotisme, Paris (solo show)
- 2004 " Entropie Négative " Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Roma (solo show)
BOOKS
- 1982 100 Dessins Erotique, Borderie ed., Paris
- 1994 La Jeune Mariée d’un Materialiste Enciente de Cerveaux, Treville editions
- 1995 Traité Secrets échangés entre monsieur y, physiologiste, et un hermaphrodite vaguement séquestré dans le boudoir d’une régente mariée, Treville editions
- 1999 Le Carnaval pour Roméo et Juliiette, Treville editions
- 2003 Les Foyers Infinis, Mondo Bizzarro Press
