TOSHIO SAEKI - NIGHT FEVERS

TOSHIO SAEKI
NIGHT FEVERS

Published by Editions Cornelius, 2022
Book size 17 x 24 cm
192 pages
Hardcover

Stimulated by the censorship in Japan - it is forbidden to show the sexes - Saeki turns the ban into an artistic constraint, turning the world's oldest subject into the absurd and the dreamlike. His precise style, which reminds Europeans of the famous "clear line" of Hergé and Joost Swarte, remains strange to both Japanese and Western readers, each of whom finds in this stroke of perfect simplicity a new form of exoticism. This perception can only be explained by the absolute originality of an extravagant imaginary book, straight from the pen of an artist who devoted his life to tracing as closely as possible "what goes on in his head when he closes his eyes".

This second volume of the anthology follows on from "Rêve écarlate" and compiles illustrations published between 1972 and 1974 in the magazine "SM Selecto".

Text by the publisher

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Stimulated by the censorship that prevails in Japan — it is forbidden to show the genitals — Saeki makes the forbidden an artistic constraint and deports the oldest subject in the world towards the absurd and the oneiric. His precise style, which reminds Europeans of the famous "clear line" of Hergé and Joost Swarte, remains strange for the Japanese reader as for the Western reader, each finding in this perfectly simple line a form of unprecedented exoticism. This perception can only be explained by the absolute originality of an extravagant imager, straight from the pen of an artist who has devoted his life to tracing as closely as possible "what happens in his head when he closes his eyes".

This second volume of the anthology follows the work "Rêve écarlate" and compiles illustrations published between 1972 and 1974 in the magazine "SM Selecto".

Editor's text