Andromeda B3 62×46cm Jiro Takamatsu Silkscreen 35/98
The silkscreen work features intricately intertwined blue, green and white lines on a purple background, creating an energetic abstract pattern.
In this work, the specks of color and the flow of lines appear to be in constant motion, evoking a visual sense of rhythm and vibration. The lines in this work intertwine with a certain rhythm, creating a structured yet free-form form.
The dynamic combination of colours and lines evokes the infinite expanse and complex structure of the universe: blue and green lines may represent calm and serenity, while white specks evoke particles of light and energy.
Born in Tokyo in 1936. Real name is Shinpachiro.
1958 Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts
From 1961 to 1963, he exhibited at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition.
In 1963, he formed the art group Hi Red Center with Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi, and together with the Neo-Dada Organizers, became the core of the anti-art movement of the 1960s.
1965: First prize at the Shell Art Award Exhibition, and the Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum Award at the Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum Award Exhibition
1967: Received the Theadron Foundation Prize at the Paris Youth Biennale and the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art Prize
1968: Awarded the Minister of Education's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists and the Carlo Cardazzo Prize at the Venice Biennale
1969: Ohara Art Appreciation, 6th Paris Youth Biennale Group Award
1972: Won the International Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Print Biennale
1974 British International Print Biennale, Bradford University Purchase Award
1980: Held the exhibition "Contemporary Artists 2: Jiro Takamatsu and Sadamasa Motonaga" at the National Museum of Art, Osaka
1986: Held the exhibition "Avant-Garde Art of Japan 1910-1970 " at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Died in 1998