A gallery exhibition of works by artist Makoto Aida has been denounced as “sexist child pornography,” after its depictions of nude quadruple amputees wearing dog collars inflamed the sensibilities of feminist anti-pornography crusaders.
The “Tensai de Gomen Nasai” (or “Monument for Nothing,” as its English subtitle runs) exhibition consists of some 100 works by 47-year-old ero-guro artist Makoto Aida, including both paintings and sculpture, and is said to be the first time his more provocative works have been exhibited in a public gallery setting.
The exhibition itself, held at Roppongi’s prestigious Mori Art Museum, opened in November and runs until the end of March, with details and an English language page available on the museum’s official site.
However, the “Society for Considering Porn Victims and Sexual Violence,” a group including local university teaching staff and women’s shelter staff amongst its members, has in a letter to the gallery called for the exhibition to be banned, denouncing it in the best traditions of feminist academia as “not only being brutal child pornography, but as exceedingly vile sexism also being discrimination against victims of sexism as well.”
The gallery says it “cannot comment as it is still deciding how to respond,” but already suggests “people who find works of this nature distasteful may wish to refrain from attending the exhibition,” and also restricts minors from viewing the more provocative works.
Not surprisingly, it is his depictions of “daruma” quadruple amputees wearing nothing but dog collars which seem to have provoked this latest assault on artistic freedom, although his works are rather more varied:
fantastic artwork. I wish I could draw so good. I feel bad for those against any form of artistic expression of which none has been hurt for the sake of. I wouldn’t butcher a horse to paint it -that’s what imagination and a good sense of anatomy is good for.
Antagonists are always misguided, in this aspect, it’s as though the artist is casting a spell upon men, driving them to abuse women. Here in ‘Murica, this is refered to as ‘Witchhunting,” and it survives to this day under many different names, and linked to censorship.
Governments are malleable in regards to defining laws; justice is blind. What needs to be done to protect free expression, is to fight against that superstitious and cowardly lobbies that seek to stretch the boundaries of reality and fantasy. They are the ones who live in chains, and chains are what they want for the rest of us.
Has the artist stated the subjects are meant to be jailbait? How old were his models? One thing about Japanese women is that it can be hard to tell how old they are :-/ A lot of ’em just seem to stop aging at some point and don’t start again till they hit retirement age.. And frequently don’t exactly have large tits.
So that means that these could be paintings of 30 year old women for all we know, and the raging feminists are actually upset because the quad-amputee subjects are still hotter than their butt ugly selves.
That is my personal theory on why l♥♥i’s are so popular in Japan… Even they can’t tell the difference between a 15yo and a 30yo <,<
LOL nothing worst than what can be found in BDSM culture. Feminist are fucking butches.
See the s♥♥t Ishithara started?
Now anything with the breast size of A and below is some victim even though they could be 25!
f♥♥k the feminist artwork is still artwork even the distasteful type.
These feminist are KILLING artwork with their damn censorship.