Poème No. 7 (?10): Nihil
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- British Museum
Typical Price
- Museum-quality abstract Poem series composition: $30,000–$100,000+
"Poème No. 7 (?10): Nihil" addresses nothingness — philosophical emptiness, the void, the experience of nothing-as-subject — through the medium of a print that, paradoxically, must use visual form to represent the absence of form. Onchi's "Nihil" print engages the Zen Buddhist and Western nihilist traditions of taking nothingness seriously as a subject, using composition to evoke absence through the character of presence. The uncertainty in the numbering (?10) suggests some complexity in the series' documentation.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Poème No. 7 (?10): Nihil was created by Onchi Koshiro (恩地孝四郎).
Poème No. 7 (?10): Nihil depicts abstract.
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