Kirin ( ver. Black )
No Frame
Year: 2008
Acrylic on Canvas
Signed
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Working in acrylic on canvas or paper, Tomokazu Matsuyama makes paintings that possess great charm and vivacity, a result of the artist's sensitivity to his cultural roots combined with a distinctive contemporary playfulness.
Born in Japan and later immigrating to the United States, Matsuyama's bicultural upbringing spurred a questioning of national and individual identity, which today figures prominently in the style and subject matter of his paintings.
By building up (or breaking down) figures into brilliantly hued geometric facets, Matsuyama creates a pictorial dimension where ancient tales and contemporary visual design can intermingle. Influenced by both the austerity of postwar contemporary art and the unbridled extravagance of Japanese and American popular culture, Matsuyama also challenges conventional ideas about cultural homogeneity, contradicting notions of "Japaneseness."
Appropriating from Western modern art history, as well as Japanese art from the Edo and Meiji eras, the artist mixes traditional icons and imagery onto a broader international canvas, including elements of Superflat, digital design, contemporary collage, and other current trends and practices. His shimmering, active surfaces reflect the forces of global travel, the Internet, and the polyglot reality of an increasingly urban world. The intention, says Matsuyama, is "to blend what are considered Eastern and Western aesthetics into one that resists categorization and cultural belonging. My work is equally pending between worlds that are not completely blended but instead still a patchwork of controlled chaos trying to evolve into something close to cosmopolitanism."
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