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Chika Tanikawa
□ "I will accept everything some day"
23 November - 13 December 2012
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□ Venue YOD Gallery 4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0047 URL: http://www.yodgallery.com Open: 12:00-19:00 Closed: Sunday, Monday and public holiday □ Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition, “I will accept everything some day” by Chika Tanikawa (b. 1986), which will be held from 23rd November to 13th December 2012.
Tanikawa defines her painting as "self-portrait" by herself. The subject she draws everyday in her self-portrait is "the empty self". She says that her "self portrait" is only a tool to express her external appearance and she does not presumably provide elements to form her ego in it. By supposing that her raison d’être is uncertain, she continues to paint "self-portrait" with the purpose to embrace and blurry herself.
Growing up in her generation where it is difficult to find out one answer with enormous amount of information in the modern digitalised society, she employs the symbolic elements such as "I", "you" and "mother" as a critical filter to distinguish herself from others. However, the recognition that she is nothing more than part of the world deepens as doing so, which leads her to continue to paint her external appearance by feeling loneliness and ambiguity of personal existence. "I" in her paintings always changes and becomes far from what she used to be as time goes by, whilst it becomes existing forever. That is to say that it is represented as what can be perceived whoever.
In addition, our body and consciousness, which are given to life through a mother, is towards to the death holding the past of childhood. Holding an inner conflict between affirmation and denial in the two sides such “mother and a child” and “life and death”, Tanikawa says that painting a self portrait as “mother” is identical with the act of praying for salvation in order to embrace everything like despair and hope some day.
Through the
experiences in group exhibitions and art fairs over the past two years since
first her solo exhibition, new works by Tanikawa have been largely developed to
the new portraits facing off against the reality of “the empty self“ from the
past portraits with the motifs that are derived from her dreams and nostalgia
for her hometown. 1986 Born in Toyama
2010 Graduated from Kobe University 〈Solo Exhibitions〉
2009 ART HOUSE, Osaka 2010 I am a Piece of Dream, YOD Gallery, Osaka 2012 Art Fair Kyoto 2012, (YOD Gallery), Kyoto
〈Group Exhibitions〉
2007 No color No shape No sound, Kobe Art Village Centre, Kobe ART STREAM 2007, Suntory Museum, Osaka 2008 GEISAI #11, Tokyo Big Site 2009 Comic Art Festa, Hep Hall, Osaka ART STREAM 2009, Suntory Museum, Osaka (YOD Gallery Award) 2010 GEISAI #14, Tokyo Big Site ART OSAKA, (YOD Gallery), Dojima Hotel, Osaka ULTRA 003, (YOD Gallery), Spiral, Tokyo SHAKE ART!EXHIBITION 2010, Miyakomesse, Kyoto 2011 ASIA TOP GALLERY HOTEL FAIR HK11, (YOD Gallery), Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2011, (YOD Gallery), Sunworld Dynasty Hotel, Taipei ART OSAKA 2011, (YOD Gallery), Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka TASTING ART EXHIBITION, Hankyu MEN'S, Osaka HANKYU MEETS ART SUMMER, Hankyu Umeda, Osaka MAISON D’ART presents “Ma Chanson Favorite Vol.4″, E-MA Umeda, Osaka CHIC ART FAIR 2011, Cite de la Mode et du Design, Paris Manpukuji Art Festival -EN- 2011, Ohbaku-shu Manpukuji, Kyoto
2012 YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2012, Sunworld Dynasty Hotel,
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Aya Murata, Sayaka Shigu
□ "Shape of Life"
27 October-17 November 2012
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YOD Gallery 4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0047 URL: http://www.yodgallery.com Open: 12:00-19:00 Closed: Sunday, Monday and public holiday □ Exhibition Outlin YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition, “Shape of Life”, by Aya Murata (b. 1979) and Sayaka
Shingu (b.1979) which will be held from 27th October and 17th November
2012. Both Murata and Shingu, born in Kyoto and Osaka in the Kansai area, develop
daring representation of abstract ceramics that are decoratively detailed
in the feminine sense. They used to share the same studio with others and
had exchanged their skills and expressions in being aware of each other.
They distinctively express their inner thoughts in the nature of human
and their individuality in their pursuit of representing ceramics with
their common feature and differences. The point in common between their executions is a result of expressing
“life” in organic forms like flowers, plants and corals. The foundation
of representing ceramics is prior to precede medium and skills, starting
with restrictions, such as firing and pottery. Therefore, they are unable
to choose mediums previously as a means to express themselves. It can be
said that they executed a work in a form of flowers at the beginning as
a result from the process of touching, crumpling and kneading clay. While Murata
expresses ever-changing feeler like organic forms in the use of the colourful skill
of “Nerikomi (Slabs
of different clays coloured with stains are pressed into logs, sliced, and
arranged to form)”, Shingu executes works in monotone with petals and many narrow and needle-like
pistils and stamens. They seem to be elegant and flowery as it appears
to be, but Murata actually represents luridness with unique patterns in
the vivid colours and Shingu seizes a sense of decay and mortality with
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"Je m'en fous- paysage 46", 2012
132 x 92,5 cm, ink on paper
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□ Venue YOD Gallery 4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0047 URL: http://www.yodgallery.com Open: 12:00-19:00 Closed: Sunday, Monday and public holiday □ Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition, “No Words Needed” introducing four following artists, Ken Kagajo (b. 1974), Takuro Sugiyama (b. 1983), Yasuhiro Hara (b. 1983) and Hidehito Matsubara (b. 1973), which will be held from 4th to 22nd September. Languages which grasp the essence of our own feelings and facts offer us clear directions. On the other hand, through the vision, art gives us scope for going anywhere within the world of each artwork, which is filled with both thoughts and physical movements of the artists. Most of us tend to stay in our comfort zone not knowing where to go since its world is infinite in which no direction is given as languages do. At such time, although it seems easier to depend on languages to understand concepts or what are in works, the truth is that we just like standing in front of them rather than exploring their inner worlds. Appreciating works through languages not only restricts the view of them but also makes us think that there should be one right way to embrace them. However, when we are so into them and feel sure that we can go wherever we like, no language is directing us and existing anymore. What exists is the feeling that our body itself is tugged toward into and gradually becomes one with them, which cannot be represented with any word. Particularly, abstract works are often thought to need a word because of their difficulty to take a specific object, but an appreciation within the free viewing is possible to find new concepts by our feelings in order to relish the unnecessity of languages and the denial of the correctness. The artists in this exhibition express the one and only world which educes our sensitivity whilst they have in common in terms of representing abstract expressions. Kagajo represents bold forms with colours in the use of discharge and dyeing technique placing much value on his emotions and physical movement. Sugiyama depicts visionary third dimension on canvases in the good use of free-hand lines and sides having balance between lights and colours. Hara paints the light itself which illuminates the darkness and enfolds its surroundings in the main subject by drawing countless crosses, which evoke the primitive image. Matsubara creates the fascinating and profound representation as a result of tearing paper coloured by him into a tiny bit of pieces with his hands and laying each other. Although each artist has their own distinct concept, it is not wrong for us to have a different point of view from their original thoughts. It is the power of the works that brings themselves into life and enable us to indulge into their inner world without any bind. Even though this gist could be unnecessary as this exhibition is titled “No Words Needed”, we would like you to experience the true intension of this exhibition with your sensitivity giving yourself over the abstract works, which embody the denial of languages and the correctness. □ Ken Kagajo Biography 1974 Born in Osaka
2000 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts Graduate School [Solo Exhibition] 2000 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto ('01, '02, '04, '06) 2001 Gallery Senbikiya, Tokyo ('06) 2002 GALERIE SOL, Tokyo ('05, '07) 2003 Wacoal Ginza Art Space , Tokyo ('05) 2004 Gallery Gallery, Kyoto 2006
gallery den, Osaka
2007 Gallery Planet, Nagoya 2009 “Positive Taboo”, YOD Gallery, Osaka 2011 “transFLAT”, YOD Gallery, Osaka Gallery Yuragi, Kyoto
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Exhibition]
1998 3rd Shell Art Award, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo 2002 Selected Artists in Kyoto, Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoyo, ('06) 12th Some-Seiryu Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of art, Meguro Museum of art ('04, '07) 2nd International Tapestry Art Biennale, Beijing 2004 3rd International Fiber Art Biennale, Shanghai Library Conference an Exhibition Center 2005 CRIA , Kyoto Art Center Selected Artists in Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of art Two Artists Exhibition, Gallery Keifu, Kyoto ('06, '07, '08) Kaunas Art Biennale, Lithuania 2006 Japanese Suppleness -contemporary art from Japan-, Denmark Art Court Frontier 2006#4, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka 2007 International Craft Trend Fair, COEX, Seoul 2008 Group Exhibition, Musee de Some Seiryu, Kyoto,('09, '11) 2009 ART OSAKA (YOD Gallery, '10, '11, '12), Hotel Granvia Osaka, Osaka
Kobe Art Marche (YOD Gallery, '10), Crowne Plaza Kobe, Hyogo EMERGING DIRETORS' ART FAIR "ULTRA002" (Ryotaro Ishigami, YOD Gallery), Spiral, Tokyo 2010 Under 100, YOD Gallery, Osaka Kyoto Kougei Biennale, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto ART FAIR TOKYO 2010 (YOD Gallery), Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo ART FAIR KYOTO (YOD Gallery), Kyoto 2011 The Osakan Dreams, (YOD Gallery), JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan,
Osaka
The Affordable Art Fair Singapore
2011 (YOD Gallery),
F1 Pit Building, Singapore 2012 Group Exhibition,
studio J/ STANDARD BOOKSTORE, Osaka
CHIKURINJI ART EXPERIENCE ,
Chikurinji, Kochi
1983 Born in Chiba and lives in Hyogo 2004 Graduated from Osaka Collage of Art
[Solo Exhibition] 2004 Osoblanco, Osaka ('06) 2007 Gallery58, Tokyo space gallery roundish, Osaka 2008 "Hyper-Geometrism", YOD Gallery, Osaka 2010 "PLUS MASS", YOD Gallery, Osaka
[Group Exhibition] 2004 Japan-China Art Exchange, Shanghai University, China 2008 ART OSAKA 2008 (YOD Gallery), Dojima Hotel, Osaka 2009 ART FAIR TOKYO 2009 (YOD Gallery), Tokyo Bldg. TOKIA, Tokyo ART OSAKA 2009 (YOD Gallery), Dojima Hotel, Osaka KOBE ART MARCHE 2009 (YOD Gallery), Crowne Plaza Kobe, Hyogo EMERGING DIRECTORS' ART FAIR
"ULTRA 002" (Ryotaro Ishigami, 2010 Under 100, YOD Gallery, Osaka ART FAIR TOKYO 2010 (YOD Gallery), Tokyo International Forum, YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2010 (YOD Gallery),
Sunworld Dynasty Hotel, ART OSAKA 2010 (YOD Gallery), Dojima Hotel, Osaka art gwangju 2010 (YOD Gallery), KDJ Convention Center, Korea 2011 Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair HK (YOD Gallery), Mandarin Oriental,
YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2011 (YOD Gallery),
Sunworld Dynasty Hotel, TE-DA-RE "KOH-JUTSU vol.2", Spiral, Tokyo ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 (YOD Gallery), Tokyo International Forum The Affordable Art Fair Singapore
2011 (YOD Gallery), 2012
Dead Paintings , Radi-un von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo □ Yasuhiro Hara Biography 1983
Born in Hyogo
[Solo
Exhibition] [Group
Exhibition] □ Hedehito Matsubara
1973 born in Kobe
[Solo exhibition] 2011 Gallery Buburindo, Hyogo, Japan ('12)
[Group exhibition] 2010 Gallery Buburindo, Hyogo, Japan 2011 Kobe Watakushi Museum, Hyogo, Japan Artspace Abando, Osaka □ Images Takuro Sugiyama “Untitled” Acylic on canvas 162.1 x 130.3cm Ken Kagajo "Once upon a Time" Dyeing cotton and binder laid on board |
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Hideki Kuwajima
□ "TTL (Through The Lens)"
14 July- 4 August 2012
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YOD Gallery 4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0047 URL: http://www.yodgallery.com Open: 12:00-19:00 Closed: Sunday, Monday and public holiday □ Opening reception 17:00 on 14th July 2012 @ YOD Gallery □ Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition, Hideki Kuwajima (b. 1964), which will be held from 14th July to 4th August 2012. Hideki KUWAJIMA was born in Osaka, year 1964 and graduated from Japan Institute of Photography and Film in 1989. Hideki KUWAJIMA is known for his magnificent photographs and glass objects that show the variety of light both in plane surface and in solid space. His works have been collected by David ELLIOTT, the ex-director of Mori Art Museum, Takahashi Collection, corporate LVMH and his art work titled "Equal" has been exhibited as window display at Maison Hermes located at Ginza, Tokyo during the winter of 2008-2009. Based on circumspect speculation on final outcomes, Hideki Kuwajima carefully lines up glasses and decanters and photographs those vessels with large format cameras. Employing digital technology with high precision and a technique close to silver halide prints, he displays on large-sized photographic paper, the visuals of multilayer which is utilised by the transparency of glass. The complicated but balanced composition and the dignified atmosphere sometimes raise the association with Mandala, the world view in the Hindu and Buddhist religion. KUWAJIMA's works often attract viewers because of the magnificence and next bring about the contemplation upon the philosophy inside. This solo exhibition performs a connection that not only discloses a new direction in Hideki KUWAJIMA's art but also makes him trace the roots in his own art. Statement from Hideki Kuwajima regarding to "TTL" "TTL" (Through The Lens)
For me, camera obscuras are like peep boxes that bring feelings of freedom. Upon seeing the glass, almost anybody will consider it just as glass.However, once passing through the boxes of cameras, immediately, to change the quality of glasses into something else could be realized. Likewise, that one person holds a camera will be considered as one simple fact with no difference. Yet, depending on the person who controls the camera, the techniques he has, even the personal aesthetic consciousness, emotions, it is feasible to convert the correlation between the light and the subject to "art works", a term being slightly narrowed down but indicating creations that hold remarkable charms.
Lens performs my most reliable eye while producing art works. Lenses will capture most of the 3 dimensional infotmation obtained from naked eyes and then reflect the informaiton through a 2 dimensional form onto the viewfinder of a camera, leaving only the information that is preferable to be edited. Being subsequent to the lens, the camera judges the outside as if it is a surveying instrument, and repeats the mechanism of assemble, compoase, examine. Namely, it is a process that comes backi and forth between 3 dimension and 2 dimension and the sense of multilayer generated from the strokes in the repeated process becomes the core in my art works.
I am a photographer. But, what means reality to me is not the "determined instantaneous moment", but "certain period of time" spent on the required back and forth though the lens in various procedures while developing art works. □ Hideki Kuwajima Biography 1964 Born in Osaka 1989 Graduated from Japan Institute of Photography and Film Lives and Works in Osaka [Solo Exhibitions] 2011 "The world - Vertical / Horizontal - TTL" Spiral, Tokyo "TTL" Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo "Parallax" The Third Gallery AYA, Osaka 2010 ART OSAKA 2010 at Dojima Hotel, Osaka 2008 ''Vertical/ Horizontal" Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo 2004 Roentgenwerke, Tokyo 2002 Lim Gallery, Osaka Paper voice Gallery, Osaka 2001 Hokari Fine Art, Tokyo 2000 Hokari Fine Art, Tokyo 1999 Y's Bash, Nagoya [Group Exhibitions] 2012 "KOWAKU - Koh-jutsu Chapter III" Spiral, Tokyo "Koh-jutsu 2.52" ROPPONGI HILLS A/D GALLERY, Tokyo "Koh-jutsu 2.51" Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo "DGSM Print - The seven photographers" Gallry EM, Tokyo 2011 "Tedare~KOH-JUTSU vol.2" Spiral, Tokyo "TANAGOKORO 10" Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo 2010 "KOH-JUTSU" Spiral, Tokyo 2009 "TANAGOKORO 9" Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo 2008 ''Landshaft IV'' Radi-um von Roentgenwerke AG, Tokyo 2004 ''ROENTGENIA'' Roentgenwerke, Tokyo 2003-04 ''108'' Ise Foundation, New York 2003 ''The Morning Glory'' Passage du Desir, Paris ''THE FORCIBLE REBOOT'' Roentgenwerke, Tokyo ''MONO'' Roentgenwerke, Tokyo 2001 ''Stay with Art'' Hotel T' Point, Osaka 1996 ''JACA'' Isetan, Tokyo 1993 ''PARCO URBANART#2: fine work'' PARCO gallery, Tokyo, etc. [Prize] 2000 APA 2000: 1st prize 1999 EPSON color imaging contest: judging committee award 1996 JACA: special award 1993 PARCO URBANART#2: fine work [Other Activity] 2009 "Umebachi Chakai -exhibition at Japanese Tea Ceremony-" 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2008 "Equal" Maison Hermes (Window Display), Tokyo □ Images "Vertical 010" Lambda print 110 x 100cm "Vertical 008" Lambda print 187×115 cm
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Yozo Takada □ "Modeling Sound Project No.1 AIR first verse" 7 April - 28 April 2012 |
□ Venue YOD Gallery 4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0047 TEL +81 (0)6 6364 0775 URL: http://www.yodgallery.com Open: 12:00-19:00 Close: Every Sunday and Monday ,20th,21th □ Reception Party 17:00- on 7th April @ YOD Gallery □ Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition, YozoTakada (b. 1983), which will be held from 7th to 28th April 2012. Studying sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, Takada got fascinated by the stimulation from hearing. He started a grand project named ''Modeling Sound Project'' whilst trying to visualise sounds. This exhibition as a part of the first verse of visually sculpturing the air not the sounds under his installation which brings lights in aerial vibration transmitting sounds. Takada’s project started in the International Competition in the Kobe Biennale 2011 by using a container space. In this time, he performs an experiment making use of the characteristics and the convection of the air in the gallery. Making us feel aerial vibration we hardly notice in every day life and the sounds beyond our sense, this exhibition is based on his philosophy of interaction between participants and the whole space he modelled.This project aims to make us realise and feel something removed from our brains and creates the new medium to express it. It is our pleasure for you to feel the launch of this grand project with all of your five senses. □ Yozo Takada Biography 1983 Born in Kamakura, Kanagawa 2010 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts 2012 Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School [Selected exhibition] 2010 9thNew Metal Sculptor Exhibition, Metal Art Museum HIKARINOTANI, Chiba Exhibition from the Museum collection of the 2nd period, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa Trans Week, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo On Site Lob Works, Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo 2011 Art in Container International Exhibition, Kobe Biennale, Hyogo Taito-ku Art Cultural Support System, Umenoyu, Tokyo Street Art Stage, Toride station, Ibaragi [Selected award] 2011 Kobe Biennale Art in a Container International Competition Images Modeling Sound Project No.1 AIR 2012 Variable Size Mixed Media Modeling Sound ProjectNo.1 AIR 2012 Variable Size Mixed Media Sound Perspective 2011 Variable Size Mixed Media |
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Kosuke Kimura □ Collage of Images 14 January - 4 February, 2012 |
□ Venue YOD Gallery 4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan 530-0047 TEL +81 (0)6 6364 0775 URL: http://www.yodgallery.com Open: 12:00-19:00 Close: Every Sunday and Monday □ Reception Party 17:00- on 28th May @ YOD Gallery □ Gallery Talk 18:30-20:00 on 27th January @ YOD Gallery Guest: Mr. Masahiro Yasugi (Curator / The National Museum of Art, Osaka) □ Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition, "Collage of
Images" by Kosuke Kimura (b.1936) that will be hold from 14 January
to 4 February 2012. Kosuke Kimura came out to be an artist in his 30’s in the later 1960’s while Art had become more democratic with the high growth of economy in Japan. In the best use of silkscreen and photography with the latest technology, he represented a pile of both virtual and real images from visual experiences excessed with everyday-updated information in the developing life. He, called as “a chiold of the age”, continuously received numerous numbers of awards from international competitions after his début. On the other hand, his independent challenge to the representation in prints was unique and controversy against the established concept and classification in the Japanese print circles at the time.
□ Kosuke Kimura Biography 1936 Born in Osaka 1956 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts [Selected award] 1970 British International Print Biennale; Memorial Prize 1971 Japan Art Festival, Grand Prize The 9th Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubliana; Grand Prize The Exhibition of International Sculpture of Contemporary, Hakone Open-Air Museum; Concours Prize 1972 Norwegian International Print Exhibition; Grand Prize 1973 World Print Competition of America; Grand Prize 1977 Japanese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Ube Museum; Grand Prize 1978 Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Kobe; Prize of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1981 Japanese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Ube Museum; Prize of Museum of Modern Art, Gunma 1983 Seoul International Print Biennale; Honorary Mention 1984 International Print Biennale Krakow, Gold Medal Prize 1999 Medal with Purple Ribbon [Selected public collection] The Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; The National Museum of Ljubljana; The National Museum of Cracow; Bradford City Museum; Ibiza Museum of Contemporary Art The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The Hakone Open-Air Museum; The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts; Fukuoka Art Museum; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Utsunomiya Museum of Art; Higashihiroshima City Museum of Art; Agency for Cultural Affairs; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Osaka Prefecture; Kyoto Prefecture □ Images "OUT OF TIME 24" Collage on paper 76.5 x 54.5 cm 1970 "OUT OF TIME 25" Collage on paper 76.5 x 54.5 cm 1970 "RELATION S1" Lithograph and silkscreen on paper 130.0 x 90.0 cm (each) 1987 |
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