丸尾末広 [Maruo Suehiro] - エログロ [ero-guro]

Naked City. A group and an album. A world of its own, piece of John Zorn’s universe. A music extremity accompanied by bizarre drawings, vile and delightful (in a sick way) at the same time. These drawings were made by Maruo Suehiro.

Maruo Suehiro

Maruo’s work is in the tradition of nineteenth-century muzan-e “atrocity print” woodblock cuts and his nightmarish manga fall into the Japanese category of “erotic grotesque” (エログロ; “ero-guro“). A whole new world was unveiled through Naked City artwork. Thank you once more John Zorn for introducing me to another underground art/cultural movement.