circular print artwork showing a figure wrapped in colourful fabric in front of a vibrant blue evening sky

Tomokazu Matsuyama

Perfect All Alone Ironic (Blue)

€950

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Edition of 75⌀ 30.0 (W) cm

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In Perfect All Alone Ironic, Tomokazu Matsuyama captures a moment of serenity and contemplation as a day draws to a close – layered, as ever, with his distinctive take on cultural eclecticism.

A variety of motifs and coded symbols coalesce around a figure, making his identity and context difficult to define. Realised in the familiar palette of early evening, each print is finished with high gloss varnish and an array of silkscreen details in white and metallic silver ink.

The work lifts its circular composition from the focal point of one of the artist's original canvases, and will be released in tandem with a twin edition – Perfect All Alone Ironic (Orange).

An image of the artist, stood in his studio.

Tomokazu Matsuyama15 collaborationsTomokazu Matsuyama, also known as Matzu, creates energetic pop-inspired artworks that muse on cultural identity in the age of the internet. Having grown up between Japan and America, Matzu explores the personal implications of cross-cultural identity for a globalised generation. His bright, acrylic and mixed media paintings move freely between abstraction and representation, and merge Eastern and Western art histories – from Pop Art, graffiti and Manga to the Edo and Meiji eras, French Renaissance painting and classical Greek and Roman sculpture. Matzu’s canvases are rarely rectangular. Instead, they take on irregular shapes that often suggest the outline of an ancient Japanese scroll. Matzu, like his Japanese colleague Takashi Murakami, also works with multiple artisans to create his works with exceptional levels of technique reminiscent of traditional Japanese painting. Combining domestic motifs like books, plants and furniture with the expressionless faces of his figures, he blends the familiar and the strange in a representation of his own personal identity between two different homes.

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