by Jonathan Barkan
Japanese artist Yoneyama Keisuke is a sculptor, photographer, an illustrator whose art is macabre, unsettling, and, most importantly, beautiful. His work is a bizarre yet fascinating marriage of the aesthetics of Tim Burton, Junji Ito, Hieronymus Bosch, and Stephen Gammell. There is a playfulness in some of his pieces but there is no doubting the terror that they are meant to convey. His pieces are creatures from Lovecraftian worlds, where Barker-esque nightmares walk freely amidst chaos and pain…