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THBShusaku Arakawa Original Olympische Spiele München 1972 Lithograph Class 2
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TimedMay 4, 2018 - May 17, 2018
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- Lot Description
Artist: Shusaku Arakawa (Japan 1936-2010)
Olympische Spiele München 1972 -Class 2
Medium: color offset lithograph - Plate-Signed By The Artist
Provenience: F. Bruckmann KG, Munich/Kennedy Press Germany
The aluminum poster showcases still photos of a runner along with vibrant splashes of paint with the colors of the rainbow.
ARTIST: Arakawa arrived in New York in 1961 with fourteen dollars in his pocket and a telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom he phoned from the airport.
Shusaku Arakawa (è’å· ä¿®ä½œ Arakawa ShÅ«saku, July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010) who spoke of himself as an “eternal outsider” and “abstractionist of the distant future,” first studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. He was a member of Tokyo’s Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to The Neo-Dada movement. Arakawa’s early works were first displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar Japanese avant-garde art.
He started using diagrams within his paintings as philosophical propositions. Jean-Francois Lyotard has said of Arakawa’s work that it “makes us think through the eyes,” and Hans-Georg Gadamer has described it as transforming “the usual constancies of orientation into a strange, enticing game—a game of continually thinking out.” Quoting Paul Celan, Gadamer also wrote of the work: "There are songs to sing beyond the human." Arthur Danto has found Arakawa to be “the most philosophical of contemporary artists." For his part, Arakawa has declared: “Painting is only an exercise, never more than that.”
Original Vintage Offset Lithograph Collection 1972 Olympische Speiel Munchen Series (Editions Olympia 1972 GmbH)
The choice of the artists who were to be invited had to be made along these lines: A precise study of the market was needed at the time. Established and avant-garde trends in art ought to be represented in the series: expressionism, surrealism, neorealism, pop-art/op-art. The artists had to be experienced in designing posters; their high artistic quality had to be world famous.
This series of vintage offset lithographs consists of 28 designs by artists: Otl Aicher - Serge Poliakoff - Hans Hartung - Marino Marini - Oskar Kokoschka - Charles Lapicque - Jan Lenica - Fritz Winter - Horst Antes - Shusaka Arakawa - Eduardo Chillida - Victor Vasarely - Piero Dorazio - Pierre Soulages - Otmar Alt - Josef Albers - Allen Jones - Allan D'Arcangelo - David Hockney - Valerio Adami - Tom Wesselmann - R.B. Kitaj - Richard Smith - Max Bill - Jacob Lawrence - Alan Davie - Peter Philipps - Paul Wunderlich - F. Hundertwasser
The art posters were original produced in three different valences:
Printed October 1967, Size 64 cm x 102 cm (25.2 in x 40.2in)
Class 1 - Original graphics: Hand-printed by the artist from the original plate on high-quality paper, signed and limited to 200 copies per design
Class 2 - Original posters: Hand finished further impressions from the same original plate on slightly lower quality paper but heavier than reproduction; the plate is signed, but not numbered. The original poster edition should not exceed 4,000 copies per design.
Class 3 - Original Reproductions of the original graphic: Produced by off-set or photogravure process on poster paper.
Dimension
Height: 40.00Width: 25.00Weight: 3.00Condition
The offset lithograph is guaranteed to be in very good condition or better. The vintage collectable work of art and may show minor handling, aging or original printing defects none of which affect the image.
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