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Jim Jarmusch & Murakami Haruki

Even ten years ago, I had considered Jim Jarmusch & Murakami Haruki as being eternal young men. Recently, I came to take a look at their latest pictures. And they are not any more fresh in their appearance and of course not in their works. The name of Murakami Haruki itself has meant me youth, emptiness, nihility, vacancy since the late of 1980s. He swept the Korean reading public as well as Japanese readers. When I read his book 'Norwegian wood' 1n 1988, I also decided to be his fan forever. He had insightful and heeling ability to soothe forlorn young men who were embarrassed with new world where was about to start to be called post modernism or post industrial society. All of a sudden, How strange and unfamiliar our world looked. He had been a representative of all the wandering soul. Whenever his books were translated into Korean version, I was willing to be a busy reader. Until now, I like his book 'Hardboiled wonderland and the end of the world' which has real

Jeff Koons and Ciciolina as Kitsch artists

Do you know about Jeff Koons? He is famous for showing 'Kitsch art' to the viewer since 1990s. These days, his works are paid attention by collectors and critics over the world. In spite of some of his works being really dirty and filthy, Jeff Koons is considered as reliable artist in art price or quality among living contemporary artists. Today, I want to say a serial photos called 'Made in heaven' which is acknowledged as, in fact, pornography. I wonder whether or not this set of photos belongs to fine art like Mattew Barney who are dealing with similar themes. Because these series are surprisingly so obscene and nasty that we doubt our eyes in front of them how and why he took pictures. These photos would be displayed or shown under the note saying 'Adults Only' even in galleries or auctions. Two models are an artist himself and his ex-wife Cicciolina who was a porno star and Italian congress member. I will show their works below. Fantastic! Now they divorced