$1,500–$8,000. Common subjects: $1,500–$3,000. Key value factors: Hamanishi's extraordinary mezzotint technique makes his prints highly collectible. Butterfly and shell subjects are most popular.
Window #5, a 2006 mezzotint, belongs to a series that uses the architectural opening as both subject and compositional device. The window frame creates a boundary between interior darkness and exterior light, a threshold condition that the mezzotint medium renders with particular authority given its natural progression from deep black to brilliant white. The fifth iteration in the series likely varies the window's proportions, the quality of light passing through it, or the relationship between the frame and what lies beyond. Windows have served as metaphors for artistic vision since the Renaissance, and Hamanishi's serial investigation of the motif engages with that tradition while grounding it in the material specifics of a Japanese artist working with a European technique. The interplay of geometric frame and organic light connects this series to Hamanishi's broader interest in the boundary between order and nature.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Window #5 was created by Katsunori Hamanishi (浜西勝則) in 2006.
Window #5 uses Mezzotint, on mezzotint.
Window #5 depicts interiors.
