TOKUHIRO KAWAI (JAPAN, B. 1971)
TOKUHIRO KAWAI (JAPAN, B. 1971)
TOKUHIRO KAWAI (JAPAN, B. 1971)
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TOKUHIRO KAWAI (JAPAN, B. 1971)

Target Shooter

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TOKUHIRO KAWAI (JAPAN, B. 1971)
Target Shooter
signed ‘Tokuhiro' (lower right of the middle panel)
oil and tempera on panel, triptych in artist’s original frame
opened: 47 x 151 cm. (18 1/2 x 59 1/2 in.)
closed: 47 x 75 cm. (18 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)
Executed in 2018

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Lot Essay

This work is produced in a Flanders triptych style consisting three panels which shows a monochrome picture when closed. In the middle are shooters in various equipments and on the left and right panels are their targets. Saint Sebastianus on the right is a Christian martyr-typically painted like this with arrows in his body-who is said to protect people from black plague and therefore has been a positive motif for Christian art over centuries. Only him and the soldiers are painted in black and white here to imply the passage of time. Each motions are a simple relationship between the shooter and the target, but plenty of them are collected in a single space to give a sense of peculiar beauty.

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