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Shoichi Ida
Between Vertical and Horizon – Paper Between a Stone and Brook

1983

$3,400
£2,566.73
€2,962.33
CA$4,797.48
A$5,345.99
CHF 2,783.74
MX$64,518.43
NOK 34,900.68
SEK 32,976.66
DKK 22,112.64

About the Item

Artist: Shoichi Ida (Japanese, 1941-2006) Title: Surface is the Between – Between Vertical and Horizon – Paper Between a Stone and Brook Series: Surface is the Between Year: 1983 Medium: Lithograph, screen print, printed both sides with Chine-collé Paper: Fabriano and Mino Usu Kozo Image size: 35.55 x 25 inches Sheet size: 37.5 x 27.75 inches Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 75. This one: 7/75 Condition: Very good This print is by Shoichi Ida, a noted Japanese artist. It is from his extensive and important series titled “Surface is the Between’. One of Ida Shōichi's (1941-2006) many prints, collages and sculptures that explore the physical space between objects that touch. Ida uses a hand-made translucent paper as his "between" and then creates his "surface" by printing a lithographic image on the verso and silkscreening a stone on the print's front side. This allows a pale image, really an illusion, of the print's title to emerge on the front side of the print. The printing processes Ida uses are varied and complex. My description states that this print is “Lithograph, screen print, printed both sides with Chine-collé” That description is from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. But I cannot vouch for the accuracy of that description of the medium because of the complexity and variety of techniques Ida uses in his creative process. Ida began the Surface is Between series by printing on both side of the paper. This made the paper not only the meeting point of the two printed images, but, combined with the printed images, the work of art itself. In other words, it was no longer merely the substance onto which the image was transferred. The images are, however, very illusionary, as if Ida wanted to show the effects of natural phenomena without waiting for events to happen. Shoichi Ida lived, worked and exhibited internationally throughout his career, He chose to remain in the traditional Japanese city of Kyoto where he was born in 1941. Among his many awards, in 1986 he and Robert Rauschenberg were presented with an Award For Excellence in International Cultural Exchange from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1989 he was awarded the prestigious Suntory Prize in Japan. Ida's work is in the collections of over 80 international institutions including the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the British Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution Sackler Gallery in Washington DC and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Best known for his paper works and prints, Ida has worked with a variety of media from painting, drawing, ceramics, metal, stone and cloth to environmental and installation art Ida's art involves a melding of Eastern traditions with a truth to materials common to Western Minimalism. The link between the two is nature. Ida has for many years worked on a series titled "Surface is the Between" which he explained in an interview published in the Hara Museum Review Spring 1987. The "Surface" can be the paper or canvas or whatever, it is the point of contact between me and the ideas I am working on or the other materials I am working with. Or, an easier way to understand this might be to say that while we are talking now, there is a space between us where communication takes place. That space is important to appreciate — but you can't really see it, it's just air. You can't see the wind either, but if you look at the branches of a tree moving you can see the force of the wind. Through my work I try to make invisible phenomena visible by showing the point of contact.
  • Creator:
    Shoichi Ida (1941 - 2006, Japanese)
  • Creation Year:
    1983
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)Width: 27.75 in (70.49 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Very good condition.
  • Gallery Location:
    San Francisco, CA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: PM08232025-11stDibs: LU666316827932

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