a space age 4

The fourth work in Kuremoto's Space Age series, this 1975 silkscreen situates the human figure within the visual language of mid-century technological optimism. Produced during a period of intense Japanese engagement with American popular culture and space exploration imagery, the print likely depicts schematized or costumed figures rendered through the flat, high-contrast tonal fields that silkscreen technique enables. The medium suits Kuremoto's interest in surfaces that read as simultaneously handcrafted and mechanically produced. The numbered series format suggests an iterative, conceptual approach to a single theme, examining how the body registers or resists the aesthetic of the space race era. The 1975 date places the work in the aftermath of Apollo and amid Japanese postwar urbanism.