Venus #16 by Takeru Amano Explore Mondoir Collection Medium: Acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 124 x 98 cm Year: 2020 Price on request Status: available Why collect this work?Amano reduces Venus to a few rounded contours, then complicates that graphic clarity through her guarded posture and the small cat held firmly against her body. The artist profile identifies Venus as a recurring subject in Amano’s practice. Here, the numbered title frames the mythological figure less as a singular ideal than as one variation within an extended study.In the photograph, cascading dark hair encloses the pale figure while the cropped composition presses her toward the picture plane. Her averted eyes and bent arm contrast with the cat’s frontal stare, shifting attention between withdrawal and direct address.The documented acrylic on canvas supports broad, opaque areas and sharply bounded shapes. Sparse facial marks remain legible against the large fields, giving small changes of angle and gesture unusual weight.The painting is a useful encounter with how a classical name can persist after narrative attributes have been removed. Venus appears not with conventional emblems of beauty or desire, but through companionship, concealment and serial repetition. About the ArtistTakeru Amano Takeru Amano is an artist featured in the Mondoir Collection. Nationality: Japanese
