Ay-O - オリンピック - 室内競技A (Olympic Games - Indoor Games A)

Modern | Sōsaku Hanga Silkscreen Print

Ay-O captures the raw intensity of indoor Olympic prowess, featuring a gymnast suspended upside-down on the rings and a weightlifter heaving a barbell overhead, both athletes' straining forms fragmented into concentric rainbow bands amid a dotted stadium backdrop representing the roaring audience - amplifying the tension, balance, strength, and dramatic flair of competition. 🤸♂️🏋️♂️🌈

• Year & Edition: 1988 · Ed. of 100 (84/100) (editioned, signed & dated in pencil).
• Medium: Silkscreen.
• Dimensions: Sheet H: 76.00 cm × W: 56.00 cm.
• Condition: Fabulous; as new - unblemished with vivid, archival inks; paper clean, crisp & bright.
• Notes: Raisonné No. 608 in Rainbow Rainbow: Ay-O’s Rainbow Prints Catalogue Raisonné 1982-2000 (Abe Publishing, 2004); one of thirteen designs commemorating the 1988 Seoul Summer and Calgary Winter Games. Published by Borjeson Gallery, Sweden. (BORJESON画廊 (スウェーデン)). 

About the Artist

Ay-O (born 1931) is a seminal figure in postwar Japanese avant-garde art, celebrated for his immersive “Rainbow” series of vibrant paintings, silkscreens and installations. Early influences included the Demokrato Artist Association and the Society for Creative Art Education, which fostered his experimental spirit. In the 1960s he joined George Maciunas’s Fluxus movement, collaborating with Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik and Claes Oldenburg on boundary-pushing performances. Ay-O’s playful, multi-sensory use of gradated colour has earned him international acclaim, with major exhibitions at the National Museum of Asian Art (Washington, D.C.) and Kunsthal Aarhus, and works held in the British Museum, MoMA (New York) and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. [ ← View All Works by Ay-O]