DIRTY - UNDERGROUND / THE SAM

A collection of works by DIRTY - UNDERGROUND (Wataru Komachi), an artist based in Tokyo who is active both in Japan and overseas. The title "THE SAM" means a popular 80's British gravure model (Samantha Fox). Mainly photos taken by the author in Berlin in 2014 and searches on internet flea market sites using Samantha Fox as a keyword. It consists of Samantha Fox's collage of extracted photographs that were not intended as a work. Wataru Komachi expresses that the meaning and shape of an object change as the sense of purpose changes.
 
An author whose father was a composer and grew up in an environment full of music from an early age, and was greatly influenced by music. After that, the self-taught artist was introduced in the English magazine i-d with a copy called Canvas Chameleon, and is known for his multifaceted expression method, and his style is characterized by a strong sense of fashion and music.
 
Publisher: Motoyoshino
Publication year: 2022
Number of pages pages: 20
Size size: 257x182mm
Format format: Softcover
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State condition: New
*The cover is available in Deep Red and Black. The contents are the same.