Summer Xu

Nobuyoshi Araki
Summer Xu

Photographs: Nobuyoshi Araki

Publisher: artspace AM

32 pages

Year: 2019

Price: 55 €

Comments: Concertina. Hardcover, 16 x 16 cm, b&w photographs and color polaroids. First edition. In very good condition.

A collection of works published at the occasion of an exhibition held at Art Space AM gallery in 2019. The photographs which comprise “Summer Xu” are the result of a few shoots with Chinese actress 许晴 Xu Qing and macro polaroids of flowers from Araki’s archives. The gallery’s website states that the first contact between the two was in the 1990s- the most recent works in the show were made in late 2018. A commemoration of sorts, the exhibition opened on Xu’s fiftieth birthday.