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Past Exhibition

Printed Matters

Tatsuo Kawaguchi

"Relation-Time, Frottage of Time"

1998.11.4 - 11.28

Checklist

1. Relation – Time, Frottage of Time, 1998

Xerography, Gampi (Japanese pager), binder, slipcase

5.2 x 34.5 x 38.7 cm
edition 5 + A.P.2

Published by Tokyo Publishing House
2. Relation -Time / Time of Lotus Seed, 1997-1998
Lotus seeds, lead, glass, cork, bees wax, zinc, paper, pencil, wood, paint

7.9 x 18.1 x 15.6 cm
3. Relation- Time / Time of Ancient Seed, 1998

Seeds (lotus), bees was, wood, paint

3.5 x 36.5 x 30.1 cm
4. Relation- Time / Meteorite in 1922, 1998

Fe-Ni Nickel-Iron Meteorite (fell to Odessa, Texas, U.S.A. in 1922), bees was, cadmium sulfide
2.0 x 12.5 x 15.3 cm
5. Relation- Time / Time of Sunflower, 1996

Seeds (sunflower), sunflower, bees wax, cadmium sulfide, cardboard box
8.3 x 25.8 x 27.8 cm
6. Relation- Time / Time of Sunflower 2, 1998

Seeds (sunflower), bees wax, cadmium sulfide, cardboard box, paper

2.5 x 15.5 x 12.3 cm
7. Relation- Time / Time of Rain, Time of Seed, 1998
Lead, seeds (cosmos), bees wax, cadmium sulfide, wood
5.6 x 17.5 x 22.3 cm
8. Relation- Time / Time of Mammuthus, 1998

Japanese paper, pencil, frottage of fossils (molar of mammoth)
98.0 x 64.0 cm
9. Relation- Time / Time of Ammonite, 1998
Japanese paper, pencil, frottage of fossils (Anapa- chydiscus)
98.0 x 64.0 cm
10. Relation- Time / Time of Sea Lily, 1998
Japanese paper, pencil, frottage of fossils (Traumatocrinus)
98.0 x 64.0 cm 

11. Relation- Time / Time of Insect, 1998

Japanese paper, pencil, frottage of fossils (Chresmoda obsucura)
98.0 x 64.0 cm

Tatsuo Kawaguchi is one of the leading artists in Japanese contemporary art. His works have been presented in numerous places such as Chiba City Museum of Art, Art Tower Mito, and Iwaki City Art Museum. In recent years, Kawaguchi has been producing works using / with frottage of fossils. Tokyo Publishing House organized prints of these works and published them as a book of prints called “Relation – Time, Frottage of Time”. This exhibition presented Kawaguchi’s prints and his related works.