introducing the world of TOMOO GOKITA
Pop artists, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Ed Ruscha set a precedent by bringing graphic design techniques into gallery art. Installation art, multimedia art, and what is now Information Technology-based art derive from their creative instincts.
Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita also went from piecework graphic design to creating personal art, inventing a world of images, characters, styles, and visual concepts in paintings, draw- ings, and unspecified images.
Gokita’s primarily black-and-white works con- trast varieties of familiar subjects, which he makes stylistically different. A lot of it comprises stylized portraits of contemporary personae — females and males of IT’s demimonde, cartoon icons whose faces reflect the polymorphous identity of mass culture. Together they represent a global mindscape, one in which actual people have to micromanage reality, self-identity, and a projected image on their apps as well as in their distracted brains.
What results is a seemingly effortless mix of drawing, origami, and computer graphics. His collages update Pop art and graphical gestures into an image-driven expressionistic art where mass information is shuffled like cards. The black and white makes such imagery easier to scan and maybe to think about.
— Jeff Rian
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Night Pictures
by Olivier Zahm and Stéphane Feugère with a portfolio by Christopher Wool
by Christopher Bollen
by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem
by Karley Sciortino
by John Jefferson Selve
by François Simon
by Sven Schumann
by bob Nickas
by Dike Blair
by Donatien Grau
by Caroline Gaimari
by Simon Liberati
by Olivier Zahm
by Sabine Heller
by Sven Schumann
by Sandy Kim
by Camille Bidault Waddington
by Takashi Homma
by Ola Rindal
by Katja Rahlwes
by Drew Jarrett
by Maxime Ballesteros
by Paul Wetherell
by Giasco Bertoli
by Chikashi Suzuki
by Benjamin Alexander Huseby
by Johan Sandberg
by Michel Compte
by Andreas Larsson
by Benoit Peverelli
by Theo Wenner
by Terry Richardson
by Olivier Zahm
by Patrick Mauriès
by Charles-Edmond Henry
by Giasco Bertoli
by Olivier Zahm
by Max Farago