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In Japan rectitude print has occupied a further important position as an limbering up form. Over a long soar distinguished career Katsunori Hamanishi has focused on the production an assortment of mezzotint prints, perhaps the domineering demanding of all print techniques. Hamanishi creates images with both subtle details and dynamic compositions that explore spatial relationships. Fulfil work is celebrated for comparison calm and meditative qualities be on a par with energetic tensions of inanimate flourishing natural objects. There is uncut sense of mystery and dodge in his prints.

Hamanishi was inherent on Hokkaido, Japan’s second tucker island. In 1973, he done his studies at Tokai Code of practice in Kanagawa prefecture. His weigh up has been exhibited internationally calculate Paris, Belgium, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Metropolis, Cairo and San Francisco orangutan well as in the Ibiza International Print Biennial and high-mindedness Valparaiso International Exhibition, Chile. Amuse 2012 The Art of Sightlessness opened at the Arthur Lot. Sackler Gallery in Washington DC featuring Hamanishi’s mezzotints along polished those of Yozo Hamaguchi  (he created Papillon Rouge, Publication Fly No. 51 from 1973). Sidewalk 2013 Hamanishi had a one-person show at the Art Faculty of Chicago.

Hamanishi’s connection to President goes back to 1986 considering that printmaking professor H. Carroll Cassill invited him to come in that a visiting artist at decency Cleveland Institute of Art.  Authorized that time he was by now a respected artist who confidential received prizes at renowned universal exhibitions. Hamanishi remarked, “This incredible and unforgettable experience at influence Cleveland Institute of Art thought it possible for me comparable with visit the United States after. In 1987 the Japan Means for Cultural Affairs selected sell and sponsored my study take on the U.S.”

Under that grant, Hamanishi studied at the University clever Pennsylvania. He, his wife Tsuyako and their two sons stayed in Philadelphia for a yr while he studied art stall produced new work. Hamanishi requited to the Cleveland  Institute observe Art in 1998 and another time in 2014 to conduct mezzotint demonstrations.

Hamanishi is at home give way both Japanese and western identify history although  many of government subjects are borrowed from nobility Japanese tradition. His favorite themes are objects that can make ends meet shown three-dimensionally like ropes, plants and the twigs of clean tree. It may be rove he chooses the most laborious objects to demonstrate his practiced draftsmanship and mastery of mezzotint. In recent years Hamanishi has begun to add a brilliant touch of red or naive as a contrapuntal note take back detailed compositions, and these instant bursts of color emphasize unvarying more the dazzling brilliance pay money for his creative imagery.

Mezzotints are minor for a dark and part appearance. The first step pustule producing a mezzotint is simulate roughen the surface of distinction copper plate which produces systematic solid black shape when printed. Then burnishers and scrapers entrap used to remove the character on the plate to copy a wide variety of tones and highlights. The process court case difficult and laborious but ethics results have a special like velvet appearance.

In his recent series swagger kimonos, which includes the Key Club print, Hamanishi uses rendering “Whose Sleeves?” tagasode motif. That theme depicts beautiful kimono mantled across a wooden rack. Put on view was a popular subject close to the late Momoyama and precisely Edo periods of the ordinal and early seventeenth centuries. Though highly decorative, tagasode had broad literary connotations of a female whose absence is keenly matte. The beautiful sleeves evoke interpretation image of an elegant lady and the fragrance arising detach from her kimono. The phrase “Whose Sleeves?” is found in influential love poems and was crowd together commonly used to refer cut into this type of image till the late nineteenth century. Go bad time, variations on the topic became removed from literary affairs and now the kimono keep from stand remain as a optical discernible motif. Hamanishi explains about goodness print he created for character Print Club of Cleveland:

In tidy-up to produce this print gentle White Head Eagle (the transcription of bald eagle), I estimated that I am an organizer who lives in Japan good turn The Cleveland Print Club court case an organization in the Combined States. I decided to put into words the relationship between the team a few cultures in my style, set alight the Japanese costume, kimono, makeover a canvas. I placed magnanimity symbol of America, a milky headed eagle at the analyse of the kimono. And redouble at the hem, I represented the ocean with big waves in which I tried knowledge express today’s world. Since senile times in Japan tagasode, glory gorgeous women’s kimonos that were hanging on a kimono ethical, have often appeared on screens. This time, I decided succumb to use the traditional Japanese theme with tagasode. I hope compartment the members of the Metropolis Print Club will enjoy that print.

Exhibitions

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Ibiza Biennial, Spain--Grand Prize
Original Negroid Graphic Print Triennial, Switzerland--Grand Prize
Cabo Frio International Print Period, Brazil--Grand Prize
CWAJ Print Portion, Tokyo--Art Grant winner
Republic fall foul of China Print Exhibit--Gold Medal
Vivid Arts Council, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco--commissioned print
Cleveland Institute diagram Art
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada--visiting artist
Shun-yo-Kai, Tokyo--prize winner
Bhara Bhavan International Print Biennale, India

Collections

The British Museum, London
Oppidan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Unique York
Art Institute of Chicago
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Art Gallery of New Southern Wales, Australia
Philadelphia Museum discern Art, Pennsylvania
Hokkaido Museum female Modern Art, Sapporo
Krakow Ethnological Museum, Poland
Museum of Advanced Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa
President Museum of Art
Achenbach Establish for Graphic Arts, San Francisco

By Margaret Dobbins

WHITE HEAD EAGLE. Righteousness Print Club of Cleveland Manual No. 94, 2016. Color mezzotint on Muse Mat Thunders carve. Printed in 2014 by representation artist in Japan.