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夜鹿 Night Deer 簽名題識畫背：Night deer Mayuka 2009 Signed Mayuka on the reverse, dated 2009 and titled Night deer 賞析： 1964年生，日本岡山人，山本麻友香被公認為日本第二代傑出當代藝術家之一。 1990年畢業於武藏野美術大學，主修版畫和油畫。山本麻友香是日本海外留學計 劃的藝術家之一，於1998年至1999年獲日本政府資助到英國倫敦研修。從1992年 起經常參加日本與國際間的個展與聯展發表。山本麻友香的作品中多描寫沈靜的男 孩，或披上動物的套裝，或帶著具有動物特徵的事物，藉此來表達他們的內心世 界。男孩彷彿穿上防護盔甲，反映出內在的易感的情緒與心理狀態。成為母親之後 的藝術家，開始反思自己的童年，並探索自然本能下、身為父母和成長的憂慮。披 著動物頭套的保護皮膚，或是長有或持有防禦性的動物特徵，如鹿角，男孩凝視著 觀眾時，與觀者產生情感連結，甚至可以從山本的作品裡，孩子的沈思眼眸深處， 去發現自我。 Catalogue Note: Mayuka Yamamoto (b.1964, Okayama, Japan) is widely recognized as one of Japan’s leading second-generation contemporary artist. She studied print and oil painting at the Musashino Art University where she received her Masters degree in 1990. In 1998-1999, Yamamoto studied in London under the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists. Since 1992, she has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in Japan and internationally. Yamamoto is known for her oil paintings portraying children in animal suits or possessing animal features, as a way to reveal their inner world. Like a protective armor in response to their emotions and psychological state, they seem to instinctively hide behind a second skin in the form of animal costumes or some other defensive physical animalistic features. The subtle tension portrayed in Yamamoto’s works becomes a powerful expression of the inner psyche stemming from childhood fears, that has been the central focus of Yamamoto’s works since her pregnancy and becoming a mother when she began to reflect on her own childhood and explored the ideas of natural instinct, parenthood and the anxieties related to growing up. A boy in an animal suit, and sometimes growing animal features, became Yamamoto’s way of representing the physical and psychological changes experienced by the child. Cloaked in the protective skin of the animal suit, or armed with defensive animal features such as deer antlers, the child stares out at the audience, who might connect emotionally, or even find themselves within the depths of the pensive eyes of the child in Yamamoto’s works.