#Repost @nanzukaunderground ・・・🖕 Nanzuka is pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new works by artist Hajime Sorayama (1947-): “Sex Matter” at Nanzuka’s main gallery space from 14th March 🦾 and “TREX” at 2G Nanzuka from 13th March 🦕 Armed with his astounding sense of realistic expressional techniques, Sorayama had developed his career since the early 1970s as an illustrator of pinups. Sorayama is known for depicting all kinds of robots ranging from human figures to animals, and dinosaurs, yet artistic evaluation of his work remains divided due to him also illustrating fetishistic female nudes from time to time. The depiction of female nudes however, is nothing special within the history of art. From the “Dodekatheon” dating back to the Ancient Egyptian era (13th century BC) to the ancient Greek “Venus de Milo” statue, the “Sleeping Venus” by Renaissance painter Giorgione, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ mid-19th century neoclassical masterpiece “The Source,” Realist painter Gustave Courbet’s…