ConS:KConWS_6p
ConS:KConWS_6p
- Birth Year
- 1961
- Death Year
- -
- Date
- 2014
- Technique, Material, Format
- acrylic on canvas, one of the set of six
- Dimension
- 182.4
- Donor name
- Mr. Nakahara Kodai
- Category
- Oil or Other Painting by Japanese Artist
- Inventory Number
- 2014-OJ-010-04
This work consists of six paintings depicting black circles on white canvases. The cryptic title is an abbreviation of "Circle on Square: Black Circle on White Square." In each painting, the circles are arranged differently in relation to their backgrounds. While the compositions of a black circle on a white background are simple, viewers may find themselves seeing in them a national flag or another famous work of art. At the time this work was made, "self-imitation" was a common theme in Nakahara Kodai’s art. This work itself was a kind of self-imitation, based on an unrealized plan for a solo exhibition he had developed some 20 years earlier.
(MINAMISHIMA Ko)
*You can see other works from this series.