Sample monotype 01 (acrylic-on-glass series)

A representative pull from Kimura's long-running acrylic-on-glass monotype project, the technique he developed at Kyoto City University of Arts to test how layered acrylic films register translucence against opacity when transferred under pressure. The image is an abstract field built by squeegeeing pigment across a glass plate and lifting a single impression — by definition unique, since the matrix is exhausted with each pull. Surface incident is foregrounded: fluid edges where the squeegee released, denser passages where pigment pooled, and thinner veils that read almost as washes. The work sits squarely in the line of inquiry Kimura has pursued since the 1970s, when his early plate work earned the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Award at the 9th Tokyo International Print Biennale, and which has remained the technical core of his studio practice and of the MAXI GRAPHICA group's broader contemporary print activity in Kansai.