Tomoo gokita biography sample

  • Tokyo-based painter Tomoo Gokita is a leading Japanese contemporary artist on the international art scene.
  • Tomoo Gokita (Born 1969) is active/lives in Japan.
  • Writing about Gokita's work has tended to focus on his possible influences—his early graphic design work and his well-known connoisseurship.

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    Forget the original ambition, to tighten the loose feeling that tends to loosen even though it has not achieved anything in particular.

    I decided to interview Tomoo Gokita , who has been indebted to <loosejoints> since its launch (remotely and loosely).

    Mr. Tomoo Gokita (hereafter referred to as " TG "): What shall we start with? How many years have you been dating Shun-kun?

    Satoshi Shun (loosejoints leader / hereinafter referred to as " LJ "): It's been about 20 years. At first, I got to know Mr. (Jun)Tsunoda , Yacchan (TOGA designer), and (Keita) Ishiguro when I was playing with them.
    In fact, it was Gokita-kun who was the reason for starting <loosejoints> and the reason for its revival. Originally, I was asked to draw a picture for the "remix" magazine, and I wanted to leave it in a solid form. inom wanted to create a form in which the works of artists around me could be more art and culture, so I asked Mr. Gokita, "Would you be willing to prese

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    Painting

    Acrylic gouache on canvas

    194.0 x 130.3 (cm)

    76.4 x 51.3 (inch)

    Tomoo Gokita was born in 1969 in Tokyo where he is based. His drawings made with pencil, charcoal and ink on paper first began to receive attention in the late 1990s. In 2000, Lingerie Wrestling, a book collecting the same works was published. After an exhibition in New York, his works were featured in numerous solo exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Gokita uses acrylic gouache to create uniquely even surfaces in his paintings. Together, the paintings’ palettes, from which all color excluding black and white have been removed, and abstract imagery, which nevertheless retain trances of representation, exude formidable power over their viewers. Gokita absorbed extraordinarily wide range of elements from various styles in his own way. Those include Cubism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Simulationism, as well as from the fields of commercial design, commercial

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    Tomoo Gokita Pink Elephants, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Make Haste Slowly, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Wild and Moody, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Hard Hap topless, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Awful Manners, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita The Speech Center, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Modesty, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita On The Crook, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita The Argus, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Sweetest Little Show, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Paraiso, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Secret Life, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Stable Mates, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Sports, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Sooth 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Sitcom, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita New Partner, 2009

    Tomoo Gokita Dance on Vaseline, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita False with Two, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Farcical Odango, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita: Bésame Mucho, 2015
    Installation view, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Tomoo Gokita Health Club, 2007

    Tomoo Gokita Health Care, 2007

    Biography

    Tomoo Gokita (b. 1969) lives and works in