Memory determines the profound creativity and originality of the acclaimed Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936–2024). His collection CRASH focuses on the collage works that have emerged from the recording and editing of these memories.
But CRASH is at the same time a grimoire for understanding Tanaami’s magical artistry, which fuses different phenomena that often seem impossibly incompatible.
Tanaami's wild imagination, which makes memories and images visible in the most startling ways, manifesting through elusive overlays and jarring juxtapositions, only begins to hint at how we might survive in this contemporary and chaotic age.
The volume is part of a trilogy that includes SPARK and BLINK.
Afumi, 196pp, 23cm x 30cm, illustrated paperback, Japanese/English text, 2025