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木原 康行 Yasuyuki KIHARA No-17

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Work no. UT0047
Artist 木原 康行 Yasuyuki KIHARA
Work title No-17
Price ¥25,000
  • 制作年/技法:1986年/キャンバスにアクリル
  • サイズ:24×18.5cm
  • サイン有無/状態:サイン有/大体良好
  • 額の有無:有

Artist

木原 康行 Yasuyuki KIHARA

木原康行(1932〜2011)は、銅版画の技法とビュラン(銅版画用の彫刻刀)による直彫りを創作の中心に据えた版画家です。

1932年、北海道名寄市に生まれ、武蔵野美術学校本科西洋画科では山口長男に学び、1954年に卒業しました。1952年には春陽会に初入選するなど、在学中から公募にも積極的に出品していました。1966年頃から国内のグループ展での発表が続きます。1970年にはパリへ渡り、ウィリアム・ヘイターが主宰する銅版画工房アトリエ17で銅版画を学びました。1971年からニューヨークの国際ミニアチュール版画展への出品を始め、1972年にはロンドンのブラッドフォード国際版画ビエンナーレ展や現代フランス版画展にも出品しました。パリを拠点に欧州各地の展覧会にも出品を重ね、日本では1980年に栃木県立美術館の「1980日本の版画」展に出品するなど、日本と海外を行き来しながら発表を続けました。

木原は版画制作で腐蝕を用いず、ビュランで銅板へ線を刻む手法を徹底しました。この手法では酸に任せないぶん、刃の稜(先端)が線幅と深さを直接決めるため、細い線の累積によって凝縮された特徴的な画面をつくりだします。1977年には中村真一郎との合作詩画集『死と転生』を発表し、「Mort」および「Métamorphose」の銅版画連作を収録しました。

1999年にフランス画家版画家協会の正会員となり、日本人としては長谷川潔に次ぐ二人目でした。2011年に没しました。東京国立近代美術館と京都国立近代美術館には前述の詩画集からの作品が所蔵され、独立行政法人国立美術館の所蔵作品検索では同シリーズ各図の作品カードを閲覧できます。徳島県立近代美術館にも作品を所蔵し、同館サイトの作家紹介には渡仏後の国際展出品が年次で並びます。

Yasuyuki KIHARA (1932–2011) was a printmaker who placed intaglio technique and burin engraving—incising the copper plate directly with a burin, the engraver’s tool—at the center of his practice.

He was born in Nayoro, Hokkaido, in 1932. At the Western Painting Department of Musashino Art School he studied under Cho-o YAMAGUCHI and graduated in 1954. In 1952 he received his first acceptance at the Shunyo-kai exhibition and, while still a student, began sending work to open-call shows. From about 1966 he showed regularly in domestic group exhibitions. In 1970 he moved to Paris and studied intaglio at Atelier 17, the printmaking studio directed by William Hayter. Beginning in 1971 he showed in the International Miniature Print Exhibition in New York, and in 1972 he also exhibited in the Bradford International Print Biennale in London and in exhibitions of contemporary French prints. Based in Paris, he continued to show across Europe and returned to Japan for projects such as Japanese Prints (1980) at the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Art, moving between Japan and overseas throughout his career.

In his prints Kihara avoided etching and relied on burin work, cutting the plate without acid. Because the process does not delegate tone to the bath, the cutting edge sets line width and depth directly, and the accumulation of fine lines produced the condensed, distinctive surfaces of his images. In 1977 he published the collaborative poetry collection Death and Rebirth (Shi to tenshō) with the poet Shinichiro NAKAMURA, including the intaglio suites “Mort” and “Métamorphose.”

In 1999 he became a full member of the French society of painter-printmakers, the second Japanese member after Kiyoshi HASEGAWA. He died in 2011. The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, hold works from that book, and the National Museum of Art’s online collection search lists catalog entries for each sheet in the series. The Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Modern Art also holds his work; its artist page lists his international exhibitions after he moved to Paris year by year.

1980年代 抽象画 木原 康行/Yasuyuki KIHARA

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