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Kikochi (A port of call) no. 4 1991

Artwork Kikochi (A port of call) no. 4 this artwork made of Lithograph on Sanders paper, created in 1991-01-01
Accession No.
1996.191
Date Created
1991
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
90.2 x 75.2cm
Edition
ed. 27/50
Media Category
Print
Secondary Media Category
planographic
Medium
Lithograph on Sanders paper
Place Created
Tokyo
Credit Line
Purchased 1996 with a special allocation from the Queensland Government. Celebrating the Queensland Art Gallery's Centenary 1895-1995

For the past 40 years, Lee Ufan has developed his minimalist art practice in Japan and is recognised as a pivotal figure in the School of 'Mono-ha'. Through his writings, as well as his art, he has provided its theoretical impetus. On 'Mono-ha' he wrote '... that it sought to recapture the site where the communion between the individual and the world was possible, and embraced the task of making art that was free from notions of subject and object...'1

The work Kikochi (A port of call) no. 4 is one of a series of four lithographs that employ the tusche wash effect to imitate spare calligraphic brushstrokes. It illustrates the artist's sentiments in his essay 'On infinity', 'I like artworks that drift on feelings of infinity.'2

 

Note: The artist has spelt his name both as Lee Ufan and Lee U-fan.

 

Endnotes

  1. Lee Ufan [exhibition catalogue], Hara Museum ARC, Gunma, Japan, 1991.
  2. Ufan, Lee in Lee Ufan [exhibition catalogue], Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 1993, p.85. Tusche is a media used for drawing or brush painting on a lithographic stone or plate.

 

 

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Works by Yasumasa Morimura, Masami Teraoka and Takashi Murakami installed for ‘We Can Make Another Future’ at GOMA, December 2014 / © The artists / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘We Can Make Another Future’

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

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