Label Text:
In Romance Yokoo employs the pop-art strategy of appropriation to blur the lines between western art history, Japanese ukiyo-e prints with their imagery of courtesans, and the commercialization of eroticism in the modern world. Layering reproductions of famous nudes from European painting—from Goya’s La maja desnuda (1797–1800) and Ingres’ The Turkish Bath (1852–59) to Titian’s Venus of Urbino (1538)—Yokoo creates a composition in which the repetition of female form negates references to the original paintings and instead renders them simply as naked bodies. The sly inclusion of Picasso’s Girl before a Mirror (1932), partially revealed behind a curtain, comments on the narcissism of contemporary culture and the growing obsession with physical appearance.
GM, 2019
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