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Daylight Away thumbnail by artist Tomokazu Matsuyama

Daylight Away

€4,500

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Daylight Away by artist Tomokazu Matsuyama with white framing

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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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  • Wonderful work and very good quality production I hope to find a new work soon of him or of a artist that I like

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  • Absolutely stunning print!

  • Wonderful experience, can't wait for another purchase for my collection!

  • Thanks again for great collaboration and looking forward to new projects and pieces for my collection.

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