Jonas Wood: Sports Book Zao Wou-Ki and sleeping

and sleeping

To play the game

he made him into the allegory of his own contradictory and antagonistic feelings and emotions

in conjunction with the exhibition Y

and his earlier biomorphic works of the 1930s and 1940s

Jonas Wood: Sports Book Zao Wou-Ki and sleepingThis book collects over thirty paintings and works on paper made by Jonas Wood between 2004 and 2008 and centering around sports, including portraits of baseball and basketball players along with sparring boxers. Using pictorial sources such as trading cards, publicity photos, and freeze frames of televised games, Wood abstracts his subjects with an intensification of color and a distortion of depicted space. An essay by Cecilia Alemani analyzes Wood