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Lot Essay
Go Yayanagi is a self-taught painter born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1933. He sojourned in Brazil and Africa in the late 1950s, and studied printmaking in Paris in the mid-1960s. His artwork- filled with brilliant, vibrant colours and rich imagery that stimulates one's vision- is inspired by his world travels and his stay in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Yayanagi once stated that the role of the artist is to turn experience into creation, and he seeks to bring out people's emotions through his artworks.
Red Lamp is a painting with an abstract composition. The compositional elements and employment of colours in printmaking has definitely influenced Yayanagi's works, as can be seen in the present lot. The painting vividly depicts the contagious warmth and glee of the light bulb painted in neon pink, as if representing the exoticism of South America, where Yayanagi once stayed. The zebra patterns also accentuate Yayanagi's adventurous spirit that pervades the canvas with emblems of travels in the tropical Amazonian rainforest.
Yayanagi successfully reaches a universal audience by creating his own unique style through the use of striking colours, which seem to bear a life of their own, and an imaginative yet autobiographical vision.
Red Lamp is a painting with an abstract composition. The compositional elements and employment of colours in printmaking has definitely influenced Yayanagi's works, as can be seen in the present lot. The painting vividly depicts the contagious warmth and glee of the light bulb painted in neon pink, as if representing the exoticism of South America, where Yayanagi once stayed. The zebra patterns also accentuate Yayanagi's adventurous spirit that pervades the canvas with emblems of travels in the tropical Amazonian rainforest.
Yayanagi successfully reaches a universal audience by creating his own unique style through the use of striking colours, which seem to bear a life of their own, and an imaginative yet autobiographical vision.