Tomoo Gokita PEEKABOO

"Gokita Tomoo PEEKABOO" is the official catalogue of the exhibition of the same name held at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2018.
The exhibition will feature 17 new paintings created specifically for this exhibition, as well as representative works selected by the artist himself, and a total of 225 record jacket drawings, "Gokita Records," which will be shown at a museum for the first time.

The crimson cloth binding with the title printed in gold silk gives it the weightiness of a graduation album, and every time you turn the page you are drawn into Gokita's world.

[Title] PEEKABOO
[Publisher] Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation
[Publisher] 888 (Honey) Books
[Publication date] April 14, 2018 (1st edition)
[Number of pages] 128 pages
[Dimensions] 30.4 x 22.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.83 kg
[Format] Hardcover
[Title Reading] Peekaboo
[Authors/Editors] Tomoo Gokita/Author, Motoaki Hori/Editor, Hiroko Yoshida (888 Books)/Editor, Masato Matsumura/Contribution, Motoaki Hori/Contribution
[Printing] San-M Color
[ISBN] 978-4-908439-09-4
[Condition] Used [7] Above average
[Accessories] None (Obi missing)
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[Related Exhibition] 2018 Tokyo Opera City (Hatsudai)

Tomoo Gokita (1969-)

Born in Tokyo in 1969.
In the late 1990s, he attracted attention for his drawings using pencil, charcoal and ink, and published a collection of his works, Lingerie Wrestling, in 2000. Starting with an exhibition in New York, he has held numerous solo exhibitions both in Japan and abroad.

His black and white portraits and abstract paintings are highly acclaimed for their unique worldview, which blends the concrete and the abstract, humor and uneasiness.
In 2012, he participated in the exhibition "Abstraction and Form: The Unrevealed" at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, and held a solo exhibition "THE GREAT CIRCUS" at the same museum in 2014. In 2018, he held a solo exhibition "PEEKABOO" at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.

His major collections and catalogues include Shuffle Railroad Songs (Tennen Bunko, 2010), 777 (888 Books, 2015), Holy Cow (Taka Ishii Gallery, 2017), and PEEKABOO (Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation, 2018).
He held solo exhibitions at Taka Ishii Gallery in 2008, 2012, 2017, 2020, and 2022.

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