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62.0 × 46.0 cm

Silk screen on pape

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Jiro Takamatsu（Japan） 1936-1998 Jiro Takamatsu used photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance to create fundamental investigations into the philosophical and material origins of art. After graduating from the painting department of Tokyo National University of Arts and Music with Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Takamatsu became an industrial designer and started his 'Point' and 'String' series.

In 1964, the artist created his representative series 'Shadow', emphasizing the ambiguity of seeing and the importance of questioning common sense. For instance, when the shadow of a three-dimensional object is projected on a wall, it turns into two-dimensional. The shadow changes its shape when being moved. Viewers can imagine the shape of the object by observing the shadow. Takamatsu tried to use the "dimensional gap" to capture the three-dimensional world on a two- dimensional painting.

Takamatsu had focused on the medium of painting since the 1980s. When an object is painted on a square canvas, one calls it a painting. However, for Takamatsu, he did not consider his works as paintings. Instead, the artist believed his works are the continuous exploration of shape and space in a two-dimensional world.