a framed print edition of an eclectic interior with a male protagonist and patterned interior

Tomokazu Matsuyama

The Seed Shiver Shine & Bright

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Code-crashing maximalism presides over a new print edition by Tomokazu Matsuyama.

In The Seed Shiver Shine & Bright, an opulent and largely symmetrical interior is disrupted by the irregular, swerving profile of its outer edge. Matsuyama toys with arbitrariness, compiling objects and motifs from far flung corners of his life in New York City. An androgynous, mafia-esque figure is surrounded by animals dead and alive – alongside fruit, flowers and a whiskey on the rocks.

Flocking, varnish and glitter draw out choice details from the reference work, while snow-like silkscreen spots add a final layer of surreal complexity to the composition. For Matsuyama the process of creating an edition presents a chance to reinvent, rather than simply recreate, his paintings. “I finish a painting, and from there on there’s another journey.”

Behind the scenes

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An image of the artist, stood in his studio.

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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