Information
Artist: KOHCHI Takumi
Date: 2021
Size:
33 × 43.5 ㎝(Sheet size)
26 × 32.6 cm (Image size)
Edition: 1/20
Technique: Lithograph on paper, Ink jet print
Detail: Not framed
Frame: Please ask
Profile
2007 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, D.C. of the Fine Arts Department
Gallery Commentary
Kohchi, who has been thinking about "the state of Artwork," has been attempting to expand the "in-between" of his artworks.
What Kohchi describes as "in-between" seems to be the space between his vivid colors (or series of layers, including the front and back).
He goes back and forth between the layers of color as freely as if he were traveling through them. Even when it is compressed into a flat surface, he does not miss the presence of each layer and the influence each layer has on the other. Also, by changing the order of the layers and the method of layering repeatedly, he tries to reconsider the image.
In this work, he prints a particle-like expression by inkjet printing at first. Then, on top of the printed surface, the colors of the oil-based ink are layered in various aspects, such as transparent and opaque.
As mentioned in the comment for the exhibition "Colors While Our Blink," Kohchi described the moment when the plates for each color overlap on the paper in the process of printmaking, that is, the process of going through the press as "blinking."
The time we blink may seem like a fleeting event, but there are many processes that lead up to it.
The eye-opening colors that pop into our eyes the moment we open them contain so many layers, expressions, and time. There is no single way to see them.