Jim Nagoya - Le Clin d'oeil

An instinctive, colorful painting that is deeply expressive.

With its portraits in bold colors, fragmented features, and spontaneous gestures, Jim Nagoya develops a painting that is immediately recognizable, situated between contemporary figuration, expressionism, and urban culture.

The face becomes here a true painting battlefield. Colors clash, overlap and run beyond the contours to reveal a personality, an emotion, a presence. Each line preserves the trace of the artist's gesture and gives the painting that almost physical energy that characterizes his work.

His universe draws on several major traditions of modern and contemporary painting: Cobra, German Expressionism, Street Art, New Figurative painting and American Abstract Expressionism, but also on artists such as Basquiat, Bacon, Picasso, Corneille, Condo or JonOne.

Trained at the Écoles des Beaux-Arts of Paris and Amiens, Jim Nagoya develops a personal practice nourished by the need to paint, to deconstruct the figure and to reconstruct it by color and gesture.

His journey is also marked by his experience within the Street Art collective TBS, alongside Jone Hopper and SKEPA, as well as several years spent in Los Angeles, in contact with the American art scene.

Back in France, his work is presented in various salons and exhibitions, notably at the Grand Palais in Paris. His works have joined private collections as well as public collections.

A WORK TO COLLECT

This painting is for those who are looking for something more than a simple decorative element: a work that possesses presence, energy and real personality.

Hung in a contemporary interior, it immediately provides a strong visual presence. Its free and colorful language also allows it to dialogue with very different worlds, from contemporary design to a more assertive art collection.

The first three display visuals are AI visualizations based on photographs of the real object's. The photos of the real object stand as proof; unique work with certificate of authenticity

_ Œuvre unique avec certificat d'authenticité
- Œuvre originale sur toile de lin et châssis bois