About This Print
One of Ida Shōichi's (1941-2006) many prints, collages and sculptures that explore the physical space between objects that touch. Ida uses a hand-made translucent paper as his "between" and then creates his "surface" by printing a lithographic image of a road on the verso and silkscreening a stone on the print's front side. This allows a pale image, really an illusion, of the print's title to emerge on the front side of the print.
Entry in Shoichi Ida, Prints in the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
The Surface is Between
Source: “Perspectives 13 – Shoichi Ida February 7, 1989 – April 16, 1989”, pub. by the Portland Art Museum & Oregon Art Institute, 1989.
Ida began the Surface is Between series by printing on both side of the paper. This made the paper not only the meeting point of the two printed images, but, combined with the printed images, the work of art itself. In other words, it was no longer merely the substance onto which the image was transferred. The images are, however, very illusionary, as if Ida wanted to show the effects of natural phenomena without waiting for events to happen.
Also see the artist's page Ida Shōichi (1941-2006) for further information about Surface is the Between.
Ida Shōichi (1941–2006)
Paper Between a Snowed Stone and Road,from the series Surface is the Between: Between Vertical and Horizon1981
Silkscreen and lithograph, printed on both sidesMuseum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, 83.58.2Ida used handmade translucent paper as his between and then printed an image of a road on the back and a stone on the front, creating the illusion of a stone resting on a fine layer of snow on a paved surface. A water stain, deliberately applied by the artist, appears at bottom right; seemingly random stains appear in several other prints by the artist on display here.
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #184 |
| Title | Paper Between a Snowed Stone and Road |
| Series | Surface is the Between |
| Artist | Ida Shōichi (1941-2006) |
| Signature | pencil signed by artist |
| Seal | grid seal (embossed and stamped) and embossed mark |
| Publication Date | 1981 |
| Edition | 38 of 45 |
| Publisher | self-published |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | good - soft diagonal crease on left side; wrinkling around left, right and top edge; wrinkling in middle top |
| Genre | sosaku hanga (creative print) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 21 3/8 x 15 1/4 in. (54.3 x 38.7 cm) |
| Collections This Print | Portland Art Museum, Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund purchase 83.58.2; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto SI-178 |
| Reference Literature | Shoichi Ida, Prints in the Collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 2012, p. 125, cat # 215. |
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