枡を版に見立て、摺った版画です。
制作のコンセプトは、「reflection」と「diversity」です。
版と摺ったもの、それは相反するものですが、1つのものから生まれています。また、今回は、もともと物体として存在するものを版と見立て、違う在り方（生き方）を模索する試みでもあります。絵では、多様性の集合をパターンであらわし、ある動物を形作っています。
The concept of the artwork is “reflection” and “diversity”.
The print and the printed object, although they are opposites, are born from one thing. As is everything else in the world.
In addition, this time, I am attempting to explore a different way of being (way of life) by using an object that originally exists as a screen for printing.
In the picture pattern, a set of diversity is expressed as a pattern to form a certain animal.
（That animal is a lion, but it does not matter if you do not recognize it.）
This work is made by carving a masu(a sho) with carving knives, applying water-based pigments, and printing it on Japanese paper with a baren.
（A masu is a square wooden cup used to measure grain and liquid or to drink sake, and a baren is a tool used for printing woodblock prints.)
This piece is a pair, two in one.
process
絵柄は主にプログラムで作成。枡に転写したのち彫刻刀で彫り、1面ずつ展開図のようになるよう摺って行きました。
水性木版画、枡、和紙
Waterbase woodblock print, Japanese cypress(hinoki), washi paper
17×17×9cm / 50×50×2cm
2022
YICCA 2023 FINAL EXHIBITION
国際コンペ YICCA 2023 International Contest of Contemporary Art (YICCA現代美術コンテスト) にてファイナリスト選出され、イタリアで開催された FINAL EXHIBITION に参加しました。
YICCA 2023 – FINAL EXHIBITION
3-17 JUNE 2023
IMAGOARS – NEW SPACE (CANNAREGIO 883 – VENICE – ITALY)
catalogue
artist’s statement
Yuko Suzuki is a Japanese woodblock print artist.
After studying oil painting and woodblock printmaking at university, she re-entered college to study information systems design a short time later.
Inspired by many predecessors, such as ukiyo-e and shin-hanga artists and craftsmen, she decided to make woodblock prints her life’s work.（Perhaps it is because her house is across the street from the small wood mill and she has been surrounded by the smell of wood from birth.)
She loves to carve wood. It makes her feel sacred, as if she is communing with the ancient people, transcending time.
Sometimes, in search of new expression, she writes code on the computer to create artworks, but for her, programming is also printmaking.
She is always exploring new interpretations of printmaking and how to see the world through them.
It is a matter that has yet to take shape and is taking shape, but one that she would like to spend her life exploring.
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YICCA 2023 – SELECTED ARTISTS:
https://www.contest.yicca.org/index.php/previous-contests/2023/selected-artists-2023
catalogue:
https://www.contest.yicca.org/images/2023/press/YICCA_2023_catalogue_web.pdf
