Paper Museum, Oji (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ)
- Date:
- 1989-99
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
$500–$5,000. Common prints: $500–$1,500. Key value factors: Kurosaki's bold, colorful prints appeal to collectors of both Japanese and international contemporary art.
Part of the ambitious "One Hundred Views of Tokyo: Message to the 21st Century" collaborative series produced between 1989 and 1999, this print depicts the Paper Museum in the Oji district. The museum, dedicated to the history of papermaking in Japan, makes for a fitting subject within a print portfolio, connecting the material basis of the art form to its subject matter. Kurosaki's contribution to this multi-artist project brought his abstract sensibility to bear on a specific Tokyo landmark, likely rendering the museum's architecture through his signature fragmented geometry. The series as a whole served as a contemporary answer to Hiroshige's famous Edo-period views, with each participating artist filtering a Tokyo site through their own visual language.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Paper Museum, Oji (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) was created by Akira Kurosaki (黒崎彰) in 1989-99.
Paper Museum, Oji (One Hundred Views of Tokyo, Message to the 21st Century 東京百景 21世紀へのメッセジ) depicts landscapes, set at Tokyo.
