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Mitsuo Kano 1977 - 1987 Prints
áEau-forte - Dreamy Papyrusâ
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Friday, November 11 to Wednesday December 7, 1988
Tripartite talk
Mitsuo Kano, Takashi Hiraide, and Masashi Miura
Recitation
Gozo Yoshimatsu, gCosmic Dyeing, Moving Wallsh
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Mitsuo Kano is known as one of the representative print artists for
his incomparable world of prints. His creative activities are not limited
to self-taught print making but extended to various materials which
steps out of the categorie.
In 1977, he published his first lithograph gCatching Thunderboltsh,
and unfolded, on a full scale, his own world of colors. After 1980,
he challenged a large-scale series of oil paintings to have a public
response, for which he made a research and developed oil-paints on his
own. After that, he returned to intaglio, and lithograph and turned
a new page of print making.
The recent prints by Mitsuo Kano stimulate the viewerfs imagination
in a diverse way. It is as if we were witnessing the scene of cosmic
birth. The drama he created on paper or zinc plates with paints, and
by means of a chemical change, with the intention to make inorganic
material look like flesh and blood, has lately taken a shape more stratified
and structural to the point that the surface of the prints has presented
the appearance of a mirror.
In this exhibition over 110 prints covering the ten years up to 1988,
beginning with 1977, when gCatching Thunderboltsh was published, the
work which was one of the apex works of his as well as of the history
of the Japanese prints, to his newest works, will be shown for the first
time together with his notebooks on the making process.
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