NYAB Event - Tomokazu Matsuyama "Glancing at the Twin Peak"

Tomokazu Matsuyama "Glancing at the Twin Peak"

Joshua Liner Gallery

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Working in acrylic on canvas or paper,Tomokazu Matsuyama creates paintings that embrace his cultural roots with a distinctive contemporary playfulness. Influenced by both the austerity of postwar contemporary art and the unbridled extravagance of Japanese and American popular culture,Matsuyama challenges conventional ideas about cultural homogeneity, contradicting notions of “Japaneseness.”

With Glancing at the Twin Peak, the artist makes reference to two titans of Japanese and American culture, respectively—Sanraku Kano and Frederic Remington. A master of the influential Kano school of painting in the late sixteenth century, Kano depicted riders on horseback in iconic images of masculinity that typified the era. Likewise, Remington, celebrated for his hypermasculine paintings of “cowboys and Indians,” spoke for a young nation coming of age at the end of the nineteenth century.

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