January 18, 2016

Yosuke Yamaguchi

Take ten minutes today to acquaint yourself with the work of Yamaguchi; his paintings will linger with you all weekend.

Yosuke Yamaguchi is a Tokyo-based painter who creates fantastical worlds in his paintings. His pieces are dark, brimming with muted inks and watercolours - but they are also multi-layered, well-crafted, delicate, and often very playful. The figures who people his paintings occasionally appear melancholy, but Yamaguchi depicts them from a distance, and the effect of this isolation can seem quite comic. In this respect his style is reminiscent of that of Wes Anderson, to whom he has been compared. Take ten minutes today to acquaint yourself with the work of Yamaguchi; his paintings will linger with you all weekend.