Sumo
2017–2025
Sumo, 2025Effect pigments and acrylic on canvas, 65.2 × 100 cm
Sumo, 2025Acrylic paint on canvas, 80.3 × 130.3 cm
Sumo, 2017Acrylic on canvas
2017–2025
Sumo, 2025Effect pigments and acrylic on canvas, 65.2 × 100 cm
Sumo, 2025Acrylic paint on canvas, 80.3 × 130.3 cm
Sumo, 2017Acrylic on canvas
I do not want to render a subject as a single, definitive image. I want some part of it to remain unsettled.
In Sumo, gradients soften the boundaries between contours and fields of colour. The wrestlers, seen obliquely from behind, are first recognised collectively as “sumo wrestlers”, yet at close range each figure can also be distinguished.