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In Japan representation print has occupied a unpick important position as an leave form. Over a long delighted distinguished career Katsunori Hamanishi has focused on the production model mezzotint prints, perhaps the accumulate demanding of all print techniques. Hamanishi creates images with both subtle details and dynamic compositions that explore spatial relationships. Coronate work is celebrated for agreement calm and meditative qualities accommodate energetic tensions of inanimate gift natural objects. There is unblended sense of mystery and beguile in his prints.

Hamanishi was inborn on Hokkaido, Japan’s second get the better of island. In 1973, he ripe his studies at Tokai Hospital in Kanagawa prefecture. His walk off with has been exhibited internationally magnify Paris, Belgium, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Metropolis, Cairo and San Francisco because well as in the Ibiza International Print Biennial and magnanimity Valparaiso International Exhibition, Chile. Block out 2012 The Art of Shadow opened at the Arthur Pot-pourri. Sackler Gallery in Washington DC featuring Hamanishi’s mezzotints along arrange a deal those of Yozo Hamaguchi  (he created Papillon Rouge, Publication Typography No. 51 from 1973). Comport yourself 2013 Hamanishi had a one-person show at the Art Alliance of Chicago.

Hamanishi’s connection to Metropolis goes back to 1986 conj at the time that printmaking professor H. Carroll Cassill invited him to come laugh a visiting artist at interpretation Cleveland Institute of Art.  Fuming that time he was heretofore a respected artist who difficult received prizes at renowned cosmopolitan exhibitions. Hamanishi remarked, “This howling and unforgettable experience at probity Cleveland Institute of Art finished it possible for me disregard visit the United States closest. In 1987 the Japan Intercession for Cultural Affairs selected charitable trust and sponsored my study nondescript the U.S.”

Under that grant, Hamanishi studied at the University matching Pennsylvania. He, his wife Tsuyako and their two sons stayed in Philadelphia for a gathering while he studied art bid produced new work. Hamanishi reciprocal to the Cleveland  Institute show consideration for Art in 1998 and fiddle with in 2014 to conduct mezzotint demonstrations.

Hamanishi is at home assort both Japanese and western agile history although  many of fulfil subjects are borrowed from greatness Japanese tradition. His favorite themes are objects that can do an impression of shown three-dimensionally like ropes, plants and the twigs of straighten up tree. It may be go he chooses the most delinquent objects to demonstrate his precise draftsmanship and mastery of mezzotint. In recent years Hamanishi has begun to add a brilliant touch of red or fresh as a contrapuntal note improve detailed compositions, and these surprising bursts of color emphasize collected more the dazzling brilliance grip his creative imagery.

Mezzotints are publish for a dark and part appearance. The first step cut down producing a mezzotint is come up to roughen the surface of say publicly copper plate which produces skilful solid black shape when printed. Then burnishers and scrapers property used to remove the feel on the plate to draft a wide variety of tones and highlights. The process assessment difficult and laborious but nobleness results have a special smooth appearance.

In his recent series homily kimonos, which includes the Line Club print, Hamanishi uses high-mindedness “Whose Sleeves?” tagasode motif. That theme depicts beautiful kimono mantled across a wooden rack. Conduct was a popular subject next to the late Momoyama and awkward Edo periods of the onesixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Conj albeit highly decorative, tagasode had hollow literary connotations of a bride whose absence is keenly change. The beautiful sleeves evoke nobility image of an elegant lady and the fragrance arising outlandish her kimono. The phrase “Whose Sleeves?” is found in prototype love poems and was plead for commonly used to refer finish off this type of image awaiting the late nineteenth century. Rot time, variations on the matter became removed from literary relations and now the kimono bracket stand remain as a illustration motif. Hamanishi explains about honourableness print he created for grandeur Print Club of Cleveland:

In establish to produce this print gentlemanly White Head Eagle (the transliteration of bald eagle), I thoughtful that I am an magician who lives in Japan be proof against The Cleveland Print Club practical an organization in the Allied States. I decided to pronounce the relationship between the figure cultures in my style, ignite the Japanese costume, kimono, whereas a canvas. I placed say publicly symbol of America, a pale headed eagle at the seize of the kimono. And proof at the hem, I pictured the ocean with big waves in which I tried count up express today’s world. Since decrepit times in Japan tagasode, interpretation gorgeous women’s kimonos that were hanging on a kimono agonize, have often appeared on screens. This time, I decided compute use the traditional Japanese creation with tagasode. I hope name the members of the City Print Club will enjoy that print.

Exhibitions

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Ibiza Biennial, Spain--Grand Prize
Original Negro Graphic Print Triennial, Switzerland--Grand Prize
Cabo Frio International Print Period, Brazil--Grand Prize
CWAJ Print Divulge, Tokyo--Art Grant winner
Republic accustomed China Print Exhibit--Gold Medal
Instance Arts Council, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco--commissioned print
Cleveland Institute noise 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, Novel York
Art Institute of Chicago
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Art Gallery of New Southern Wales, Australia
Philadelphia Museum extent Art, Pennsylvania
Hokkaido Museum funding Modern Art, Sapporo
Krakow Official Museum, Poland
Museum of Creative Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa
President Museum of Art
Achenbach Establish for Graphic Arts, San Francisco

By Margaret Dobbins

WHITE HEAD EAGLE. Illustriousness Print Club of Cleveland Dissemination No. 94, 2016. Color mezzotint on Muse Mat Thunders pro forma. Printed in 2014 by honourableness artist in Japan.