About the artwork
This work, composed of dynamic blue and magenta strokes on an immaculate background, reveals a nude woman, from behind, with a jare. With his explosive palette, Takeru Ameno draws us into a joyful, fleeting Japanese pop culture, while playing with the classic theme of the muses in art history. Favoring simplicity to evoke direct emotion in just a few strokes, Takeru Amono presents us with his singular, deliberately naïve universe, part of the "Superflat" artistic movement founded by Takashi Murakami.
Expert opinion
Combining simple strokes and explosive colors, Takeru Amano takes us into the world of Japanese pop, reinvented here with spray paint borrowed from street art.
About the artist
Born in Tokyo in 1977, Takeru Amano is a painter and sculptor living and working in Japan. Son of the famous illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, Takeru Amano was immersed in the art world from an early age. In a quest for distinction, he travelled to New York in 1997 to study printmaking. This journey had a profound influence on his style, giving it a modernity based on a fusion of art-historical clichés and Japanese pop culture. Working with an explosive palette, he defends simplicity both in his execution and in the message he conveys, which he believes is specific to the viewer. His work has been shown worldwide, including in galleries in Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong, as well as on several occasions in Paris, where he was recently exhibited at the Asia Now 2023 fair.
“If I had to describe my style, I'd say I take the icons of classical art and give them a more modern tone. [...] For me, simplicity is essential, as it allows you to understand the work at a glance.”
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