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Lot Essay
As our sensibilities respond to the proliferation of media, we have generated our own 'simulation', to configurate a worldview through an image-driven age. Shinro Ohtake had since reflected on the influx of visual representations, with his unrivalled paint/collage creations". Active from the early 80s, in recent years, he has exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2013 and dOCUMENTA(2012). His multifarious practices, involving fine works of paintings, drawings, scrapbook assemblages and outdoor installations, have placed him high in the rank of cutting-edge Japanese artists, among Yayoi Kusama, Tadanori Yokoo and Yoshitomo Nara. As Takashi Murakami once expressed, his art was at first inspired by Shinro Ohtake.
Shinro Ohtake often situated images of printed matter or photos, to interact with his visceral drawings; in poised compositions, the artist has mapped out of what exists within his mind, which also defines of his time. Her Black Board (Lot 248) appears to be annotations leftover on a chalkboard; playful scribbles scattering on the dark surface, reminds to us of our days in school. The faint imagery of a classroom emerges from the entwined markings, surely reflects on Ohtake's innate predilection for cutting and pasting; about the realm of memory and perception, underlined the collective consciousness we share in a world dominated by images.
Shinro Ohtake often situated images of printed matter or photos, to interact with his visceral drawings; in poised compositions, the artist has mapped out of what exists within his mind, which also defines of his time. Her Black Board (Lot 248) appears to be annotations leftover on a chalkboard; playful scribbles scattering on the dark surface, reminds to us of our days in school. The faint imagery of a classroom emerges from the entwined markings, surely reflects on Ohtake's innate predilection for cutting and pasting; about the realm of memory and perception, underlined the collective consciousness we share in a world dominated by images.