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Tomoo Gokita
MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita, featuring a recent body of work first shown in October 2024 at ICA Milano. Rooted in the visual language of the everyday, these paintings take familiar figures and gestures and subtly distort them.
Gokita began his career in the 1990s working in commercial design, book illustration, and music packaging - fields where clarity and directness were everything. But in his off hours, he made drawings that refused readability: moody, warped graphite portraits of imagined characters. These early drawings gained a cult following in Tokyo鈥檚 underground art scene and eventually abroad. In 2005, he was included in the Greater New York show at MoMA PS1, despite never having had a solo show in the United States.
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MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Tomoo Gokita, featuring a recent body of work first shown in October 2024 at ICA Milano. Rooted in the visual language of the everyday, these paintings take familiar figures and gestures and subtly distort them.
Gokita began his career in the 1990s working in commercial design, book illustration, and music packaging - fields where clarity and directness were everything. But in his off hours, he made drawings that refused readability: moody, warped graphite portraits of imagined characters. These early drawings gained a cult following in Tokyo鈥檚 underground art scene and eventually abroad. In 2005, he was included in the Greater New York show at MoMA PS1, despite never having had a solo show in the United States.
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