I’ve paid attention to Moriuo’s works for a long time and last year I asked him to place his works in my Sydney Mardis Gras exhibition but due to bad timing he had no chance to join that show. During this stay in Japan I managed to meet Moriuo and he’s agreed to show his [...]
Everyone knows that gay bars in Tokyo are situated in Shinjuku Nichome. With more then 100 bars it is one of the biggest gay areas in the world together with the one which is located in Osaka, Doyama. They say that recently more then 80 gay bars exist in Shimbashi, more then 100 in Ueno [...]
As mentioned Gengoroh Tagame recently held his first personal exhibition, and as part of it he held a talk show one night. It was a very remarkable event for admirers of his talent. The publisher of gay erotic art books Kin Sawabe, and an adult video writer Amemiya Mami also took part in the show [...]
The name of this exhibition is very interesting. In Japanese CHINKO means penis and the word “personal exhibition” means KOTEN so the name of the event I went to take a look at was a combination of the two words CHINKOTEN. Well, let me call it by mixing English and Japanese – “CHINxibition”. It is [...]
Mr. Tatsuya’s personal exhibition will be held in Osaka from August 25. He took part in the Sydney Mardi Gras for the last two years so some of you will be familiar with his work already. It is expected that the works which will be displayed are connected to his previous works. This will be [...]
I recently took part in the opening of the 11th exhibition of sexual minorities’ art group. Many artists like Kanji Shimizu, Toboji and Kow as well as some other artists who I have introduced you to via this site took part in it. There are many other interesting artists that took part in it too [...]
Earlier this week I headed to Gengoroh Tagame’s new exhibition on it’s opening day. Mr. Tagame has shown his works in exhibitions several times but has never had a solo exhibition in Japan before. It’s a retrospective show with works with created over his lifetime, together in one place for the first time. With works [...]
Feature Inc. in cooperation with the Tom if Finland Foundation has just opened a group exhibition in New York City, running until the 31st of July. Gengoroh Tagame has joined the exhibition, one of over 30 artists involved. Gengoroh isn’t making it to the exhibition, but some of the works and artists who have been [...]
I really appreciated Gengoroh Tagame’s visiting Sydney for the Mardis Gras, especially his presence at the opening night and the speech he gave. Thanks! Below is Mr. Tagame’s speech from opening night. Mr. Tagame’s opening night speech Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. First, I am sorry for my bad english, I’m not good at english, [...]
Finally I’m uploading opening night photos from Oh! Kinky desu ka? from back in February. Yes, it’s a long time I know, but I’m getting lot’s of requests for some pictures so here you are. It was a fun opening, thanks to all who came and supported us. Big thanks to Raymond Hoang for supplying [...]
