Kuniichi SHIMA

Born in Tokyo in 1935. Helped to establish "Group・Han" in 1958 and graduated from Tama Art University Department of Painting the following year. He continued to display works at “Group・Han” group exhibitions and modern Japanese art exhibitions, won accolades in 1971, and the following year won grand prize at the Japan Art Festival. He continued to win accolades at events such as the Krakow International Print Biennial Exhibition, Tokyo International Print Biennial Exhibition, and many other print exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1975 he and Nobuo SEKINE exhibited across Japan at 30 locations in a project planned by the Contemporary Print Center.

In 1980 he studied in the United States for one year as a research trainee for the Agency of Cultural Affairs. Many of SHIMA’s works explore the material quality of images and the possibilities of print - hanging a yellow futon from a yellow-painted apartment complex, stamping 10,000 stones from the riverbank and throwing them back into the water, printing dirt on the ground or newspaper. In doing so he tries to discover the connection between the internal “individual” and the universal “world”.
He passed away in 2018 at the age of 82.

 


"Landscape at the bottom of water"

1975
Silkscreen
Image size: 30.8×30.5cm
Sheet size: 54.0×39.2cm
Ed.75 
Signed

   


"Print of Drum Painting 58"

1984
Silkscreen
Image size: 38.0×34.0cm
Sheet size: 63.5×48.5cm
Ed.100 
Signed


"Print of Drum Painting 60"

1984
Silkscreen
Image size: 35.5×39.5cm
Sheet size: 64.5×49.0cm
Ed.100 
Signed

"love"
1974
Silkscreen (printed: Komine process)
Image size: 30.0×28.0cm
Sheet size: 39.8×54.5cm
Ed.100 
Signed



"love jumper"
1974
Silkscreen (printed: Komine process)
Image size: 33.0x28.0
Sheet size: 54.6x39.4cm
Ed.100 

Signed


"jeans"
1974
Silkscreen on cloth (printed: Komine process)
Image size: 81.0x80.0cm
Sheet size: 97.9x102.6cm
Ed.50  

Signed


"cylinder"
1975
Object, xerox, silkscreen
8.0x45.0
Ed.800
Signed



"Boat Woman"
1974
Silkscreen (printed: Komine process)
Image size: 40.0×45.0cm
Sheet size: 50.8×62.1cm
Ed.100  

Signed


"Guevara"
1974
Silkscreen on cloth (printed: Komine process)
Image size: 69.0×99.0cm
Sheet size: 103.1×125.1cm
Ed.50  

Signed


"working on safety"
1975
Lithograph
Image size:43.3×32.2cm
Sheet size :56.8×38.2cm
Ed.100
Signed

 

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