Akira Kurosaki - スミソニアン博物館 (Smithsonian Museum)

Modern | Sōsaku Hanga Woodblock Print

A dynamic 1975 print that layers x-ray - like skeletons of museum specimens over bold red and green fields, punctuated by silvery relief bands and inset archival vignettes - melding scientific intrigue with graphic abstraction.🦴🔬

• Year & Edition: 1975 · Ed. of 75 (signed & titled in pencil to plate).
• Medium: Woodblock & zinc relief.
• Dimensions: Sheet H: 48.00 cm × W: 33.75 cm.
• Condition: Fantastic; no browning, mat burn or discoloration; paper crisp with sharp edges. **Foxing/residue mark near the pencilled edition count (?57/75).
• Notes: From the “America - Love & Peace” series, produced with Sohei Uchiyama (embossed S.UCHIYAMA seal lower right); listed in the National Museum of Art, Osaka union catalog.

About the Artist

Akira Kurosaki (1937-2019) was a pioneering mokuhanga artist who fused traditional Japanese woodblock techniques with bold abstraction and surreal landscapes, rendered in his signature deep reds, purples and blacks. A graduate of the Kyoto Institute of Technology and devoted to the sōsaku hanga ethos - overseeing every stage of production himself - he earned the Florence Biennale Gold Prize and Japan’s Order of the Sacred Treasure. From 1987 he taught and led the Printmaking Department at Kyoto Seika University, mentoring a generation of printmakers; his work is held by the British Museum, MoMA and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. [ ← View All Works by Akira Kurosaki]