Untitled work by Manfred Egger

This untitled print, exhibited at the 2021 IMC juried exhibition, is part of Egger's contribution to the conference's program around sumi. Juried selection for the IMC reflects review by an international panel and places a print alongside work by mokuhanga practitioners from across Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Within that comparative field, contemporary mokuhanga works often differ from ukiyo-e antecedents in subject — abstraction, landscape pared down to formal elements, and conceptual approaches are common — while sharing the underlying technical apparatus of carved blocks, water-based pigments, washi paper, and baren printing. Egger's representation of Austria at the 2021 conference reflects the medium's continued international expansion three decades into its post-Japan diffusion. The untitled designation lets the work be read as part of an ongoing studio practice rather than as a discrete narrative image.