KURODA SHIGEKI
Intaglio – etchings, aquatint. Born 1953 Kanagawa Prefecture. Tama Art University.
Permanent Collections include: the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Hawaii State Art Museum; the Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts and the Yokohama Museum of Fine Art in Japan, the British Museum, London; the Constanza City Museum in Romania. One-man exhibitions in Japan and overseas.
Kuroda’s aim is to express the concept of motion. Using the bicycle as the primary object, he soon added umbrellas. The idea came from a scene in a Hitchcock film. Maybe it was the sense of mystery created by the visual absence of people, or maybe he simply felt that umbrellas would add mass to his compositions. Other changes in composition have developed over the years: in his early works, the bicycles and umbrellas were floating in vacant space. He then added trees, walls, fences, walkways, with the static structures emphasizing the rushing movement. He uses a variety of different intaglio printing processes to achieve contrast in his lines” some sharp and thin, others thick and blurred” and in his background or colour areas” some smooth and uniform, others dappled or textured.
Title: Blue Shower - SOLD OUT
Date:
Medium: Etching/Aquatint
Edition: 50
Image size: 15 x 29cm
Title: Chrysler Steeple
Date:
Medium: Etching
Edition: 50
Image size: 29 x 18cm
Title: Summer Road - SOLD OUT
Date:
Medium: Etching
Edition: 50
Image size: 12x19cm
Title: Kirara - SOLD OUT
Date:
Medium: Etching/acquatint
Edition: 70
Image size: 22x14cm
Title: Maze - SOLD OUT
Date:
Medium: Etching/acquatint
Edition: 50
Image size: 14x11cm
Title: Lover's Night - SOLD OUT
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Medium: Mezzotint
Edition: 50
Image size: 22x14cm
Title: Bicycles and Umbrellas Under the Full Moon
Date: 2017
Medium: Watercolour on layered washi paper
Edition:
Image size: 31 x 56cm
Title: The Eyes - SOLD OUT
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Medium: Mezzotint
Edition: 50
Image size: 10 x 15cm
Title: The Light - SOLD OUT
Date:
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Edition: 70
Image size: 22 x 15cm
Title: Spring Mist - SOLD OUT
Date: 2014
Medium: Watercolour on layered mulberry paper
Edition:
Image size: 30 x 56cm
Title: Rainy Park - SOLD OUT
Date: 2014
Medium: Watercolour on layered mulberry paper
Edition:
Image size: 30 x 56cm
Title: Column of Water
Date: 2005
Medium: Watercolour
Edition:
Image size: 50 x 49cm
Title: Red Umbrella
Date: 2016
Medium: Watercolour on layered mulberry paper
Edition:
Image size: 30 x 50cm
Title: In the Rain - SOLD OUT
Date: 2016
Medium: Watercolour on layered mulberry paper
Edition:
Image size: 22 x 40cm
Title: Spicy Red
Date: 2016
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Edition: 30
Image size: 18 x 29cm
Title: Sky Road
Date: 2018
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Edition: 30
Image size: 30 x 18cm
Title: Spiral - SOLD OUT
Date: 2017
Medium: Watercolour on layered washi paper
Edition:
Image size: 74 x 48 cm framed
Title: Pedal - SOLD OUT
Date: 2017
Medium: Watercolour on layered washi paper
Edition:
Image size: 30.5 x 56 cm
Title: Spring Yellow
Date:
Medium: Etching and aquatint
Edition: 30
Image size: 15 x 26 cm
Title: Lucky Bird
Date: 2020
Medium: Etching
Edition: 50
Image size: 15 x 11 cm
Title: Humming
Date: 2020
Medium: Mezzotint
Edition: 50
Image size: 13 x 8 cm
Title: Eastern Rain
Date: 2019
Medium: Etching
Edition: 30
Image size: 49 x 38 cm sheet
