Yoshitomo Nara 奈良美智
Oddly Cozy 《格外的舒適》
Estimate: 80,000,000 - 120,000,000 HKD
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Healing with Art: Yoshitomo Nara's Pivotal Shift into the Emotional Landscape
Sotheby’s is also thrilled to present Oddly Cozy as a highlight of our upcoming prestigious Evening Sale in April in Hong Kong, a mature masterpiece by the revered Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Impressive in size and arresting in its visual power, Oddly Cozy, executed in 2013, is an exceptional example of the artist’s more recent works that has never before been offered at auction.
Oddly Cozy is a quintessential example of a distinctive body of work that Nara began in 2012, after his return to the studio in April of that year following the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011. The work is demonstrative of the shift in the artist’s visual language during this period, softening the once menacing expressions of his little girls, depicting his figures from the bust upwards, expanding his colour palette and experimenting with a shimmering translucency through more meditative layering. The epitome of Nara’s later works, this painting was exhibited at the artist’s solo show at Pace Gallery in New York in 2013, signaling Nara’s more meditative and introspective aesthetic underscored by deeper contemplations on the self and the world.
著名日本藝術家奈良美智的力作《格外的舒適》亦將現身晚拍。這幅2013年的作品高近兩米，畫中主角比例比真人更大，具有強烈的視覺衝擊力。它是奈良美智的精彩傑作，出自其創作生涯的成熟時期，此前從未見諸拍場。
《格外的舒適》屬於一組在2012年4月開始誕生的作品，而在這一年前的3月11日，日本東部發生大地震，傷亡慘重。在這段期間，奈良的視覺語言開始轉變，他筆下的小女孩不再面露猙獰，形象變得更柔和；他開始創作半身像，也嘗試新的色彩和色調，並以層層鋪疊的方式，緩慢而仔細地營造出閃爍的半透明感。這是奈良近年創作的優秀典例，標誌著藝術家成熟內省的美學風格，以及對自我和世界更深沉的思考。2013年，它在紐約佩斯畫廊的奈良美智個展上亮相。
