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For the first time, a special slip-case edition brings together two of the most famed Japanese artists, Araki and Hokusai. Tradition meets contemporary, presented in a single edition on each artist. Hokusai's traditional wood carvings, such as the famous wave, meet Araki's notorious bondage pictures, his opulent, sensual images of flowers and his repainted photographs. The dialogue spans centuries, exposing the development of Japanese art.

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Nobuyoshi Araki, born 1940 in Tokyo (Japan), is arguably Japan's greatest living photographer, and certainly its most controversial. His inexhaustible creative energy is attested to by the more than 300 books he has published in the last four decades. His work often challenges social taboos surrounding sex and death. Dr Veit Gorner, born in Munich in 1953, has been director of the kestnergesellschaft in Hannover since 2003. He lives in Hannover and Stuttgart.Gorner, has organised extensive solo exhibitions - often for the first time in Germany - with the following internationally renowned artists, among others: Gary Hume, Cindy Sherman, Miquel Barcelo, Fischli & Weiss, Anton Corbijn, Candida Hofer. Curator at the Kestnergesellschaft Hannover, Germany.

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