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GOKITA TOMOO | Mrs. Drunko
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 HKD
Sold
bidding is closed
Description
- Gokita Tomoo
- Mrs. Drunko
- acrylic and gouache on canvas
- 161 by 130 cm; 63⅜ by 51⅛ in.
signed and titled in English and dated 2006 on the reverse
Provenance
ATM Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Catalogue Note
I am presuming that to deform the human face might be a reaction against my practice of depicting them like crazy when I was young. Probably, I have become tired of depicting faces. Also, I have loved the masked wrestlers of the Mexican Lucha libre and those masks in Africa all this time, and a kind of transformational desire “to hide a face and to become a different character”, which can be symbolized in those masks, may have affected my work. I suppose there exists a certain ghoulish curiosity towards monsters and deformities, too. - Gokita Tomoo