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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomokazu Matsuyama, Walls Praying for July, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomokazu Matsuyama, Walls Praying for July, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tomokazu Matsuyama, Walls Praying for July, 2023

Tomokazu Matsuyama Japan, b. 1976

Walls Praying for July, 2023
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Panel 1 - 68 x 72.5 in ( 172.7 x 184.2 cm )
Panel 2 - 72.5 x 62 in ( 184.2 x 157.5 cm )
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  • Walls Praying for July
This diptych by Tomokazu Matsuyama beautifully elucidates the artist’s interest in commingling seemingly disparate elements in order to create an image that is completely new and yet also uncannily recognizable...
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This diptych by Tomokazu Matsuyama beautifully elucidates the artist’s interest in commingling seemingly disparate elements in order to create an image that is completely new and yet also uncannily recognizable to anyone. The natural world has been brought indoors in the form of birds, butterflies and snowflakes; outside, the night sky is wallpapered; priceless looking ceramics share table space with an iPhone and bits of trash; the three figures, borrowed from the pages of fashion magazines, lounge around the impossible chic space looking bored and disinterested—one leans on an Andy Warhol Brillo Box sculpture. Matsuyama blends visual elements taken from Eastern and Western culture, and borrowed from different times, in order to arrive at something that will be familiar to all people, even if it is not necessarily representative of anything they have actually encountered before.
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