Artist: Tomoo Gokita
Exhibition title: Game Over
Venue: Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Date: March 3 – July 18, 2020
Photography: Roberto Marossi / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong
Massimo De Carlo is pleased to present Game Over Tomoo Gokita’s first solo exhibition in Milan, and second with the gallery.
Tokyo based artist Tomoo Gokita is known for his signature painting style that marries pop-cultural archetypes with surreal, noirish flights of fancy. His artistic vocabulary barrels across illustration, soft pornography, abstraction and calligraphy, with perfect control, velvety surfaces and tonal range transforms ordinary scenes into warped and absurd realities.
Game Over is Tomoo Gokita’s first venture into painting in colour, a departure from the artists monochromatic style. In this exhibition, Gokita presents a selection of 16 paintings ranging from large to small scale, using sultry pastel colours reminiscent of spring colours or seasonal change, continues his streak of representing amorphous contemporary personae with slight sexual undertones. The reappearing elusive figure of Regina is represented in the majority of the canvases, creating this anonymous yet intriguing centripetal theme to the exhibition.
Each room is a journey between the artists’ abstract and figurative makings where eroticism, painterly gesture and vibrant tints tell of an oneiric dimension that encompasses love, gender and daydreams.
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, Game Over, 2020, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, photo: Roberto Marossi
Tomoo Gokita, REGINA #8, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 227.3 × 181.8 cm / 89 1/2 × 71 5/8 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Tomoo Gokita, REGINA #3, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 41 × 31.8 cm / 16 1/8 × 12 1/2 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Tomoo Gokita, THE GREAT ANGER, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 194 × 162 cm / 76 3/8 × 63 3/4 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Tomoo Gokita, THE GODFATHER, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 194 × 162 cm / 76 3/8 × 63 3/4 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Tomoo Gokita, SLIT, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 162 × 130 cm / 63 2/3 × 51 1/3 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Tomoo Gokita, WORKING ANIMAL, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 162 × 130 cm / 63 2/3 × 51 1/3 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Tomoo Gokita, PIANETA SEGRETO, 2020, Acrylic paint on canvas, 53 × 53 cm / 20 7/8 × 20 7/8 inches © Tomoo Gokita, courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, Milan