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Chen Peng Posters on the Walls of Turin, Torino, Italy

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  Chen Peng is an illustrator and graphic designer who currently lives in Shenzhen, China. He often marvels at how the world is so full of symbols. 

Psychotic Window by Yayoi Kusama for Louis Vuitton

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Here are some photos of the windows displayed  in September and October 2012  in various cities  by shops selling Louis Vuitton products.  In my humble opinion, these windows are psychotic, packed full of sexual references and plainly pornographic, but  they are also interesting to watch. If the tentacles above and the colourful flowers below are not strong references to the male and female sexual organs, then I do not know what they are.  It also seems t he red colour everywhere  can be nothing else but blood. The designer of all these mess was Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese "Pop" artist. Some references can be found at these links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/index.html http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/YayoiKusama The obsession for representing her own image among tentacles and other very easy to decrypt sexual references is found elsewhere in many works by this artist ...