TOSHIO SHIBATA - PAINTING

TOSHIO SHIBATA
PAINTING

Published by Chose Commune, 2021
Book size 21 x 27 cm
Hardcover
16 flat colors
20-page concertina book with a ribbon on the spine
Language English / French
ISBN: 979-10-96383-24-5

The book Painting reveals 16 unpublished color photographs by Toshio Shibata, a Japanese photographer who is known for his rigorous and meticulous compositions. The representation of intimate yet spectacular landscapes — natural, and especially artificial — are at the core of Shibata's work. In keeping with the tradition of painting that Shibata studied in his early years in 1968, this book celebrates the abstraction of beauty. It has been designed in a concertina format that can also be turned into a suspended object — just like a kakemono , a Japanese unframed scroll painting made on paper or silk and displayed as a wall hanging.

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The book Painting unveils 16 unpublished color photographs by Toshio Shibata, a Japanese photographer known for his demanding and meticulous compositions. The representation of a landscape that is both intimate and spectacular, natural but above all artificial, is at the heart of Shibata's work. Echoing painting, which Toshio Shibata studied at the beginning of his career in 1968, this book celebrates a certain form of abstract beauty. Designed as an accordion book, this book can also be hung like a kakemono, a Japanese vertical painting or calligraphy on silk or paper framed in a roll and intended to be hung on the wall.