ARCHITECTURAL FUTURIST SEIKO KAWACHI WOODBLOCK PRINT/ '1984' / #26/50-JAPANESE ARTIST

** Please note.  The framing on this work is a gold tone,  clean line, professionally mounted frame and glass.  It is shown in the first photo with a black frame . This was added in an edit because i could not get the gold tone frame to show evenly in a direct angled photo without tons of glass reflection.  You can easily replace with a black frame if you prefer the look.

The Artist:

Born in 1948 in Yamanashi. Graduated from Tama Art University in 1973. He had won the award of the New Printer's Prize at the 38th Japan Print Association Exhibition in 1970, when he was 22 years old. 

Regular solo exhibitions in Tokyo; Antwerpen, Belgium; Taipei. Numerous participation in group exhibitions.
Awarded by national and international prizes many times including Grand Prizes.
His works are collected in many Japanese public Museums and Galleries, and also in the British Museum, UK, the State Museum of Oriental art, Moscow etc.

Since 1979 Kawachi images that had timber crossed in a T-shape, part of which was cleft, bundled or broken and cracked, were beginning to appear as seen in a series- "Katsura".
Kawachi quoted "I named this work KATSURA after Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto - one of the most distinguished styles of Japanese architecture, which is famous for its beautiful and strong pillars", "Integration" or "Crack".
It did not only mean a change of pattern, but also contrived to express the movement more naturally, drawing the boxes casting off at a distance. One can see the motion of energy created by the force added to the image so that the wood cracks, breaks or is crushed after being pulled or bundled by the ropes.

Artist: SEIKO KAWACHI

Title: “1984”

Edition: 26/50

Origin: Japan

Media: Wood Block Print 

Dimensions:  31 ¾ ”H x 29 ½ ”L frame 

Condition Report: very good vintage

** Please note.  The framing on this work is a gold tone,  clean line, professionally mounted frame and glass.  It is shown in the first photo with a black frame . This was added in an edit because i could not get the gold tone frame to show evenly in a direct angled photo without tons of glass reflection.  You can easily replace with a black frame if you prefer the look.

**This piece has an attribution mark such as a artist’s signature, a certificate of authenticity, or a production mark

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