Andromeda B2 62×46cm Jiro Takamatsu Silkscreen 35/98

The silkscreen work features blue, red and white lines swirling freely against a vibrant green background.

The work captures a visual energy and movement, with each line tracing its own independent path yet appearing to form a harmonious whole.

The abstract forms and bold colors suggest the complexity of life and the depths of the universe, giving the viewer space to explore their inner emotions and feelings.

Each colour symbolises a different emotion or energy, and the intertwining lines seem to be an attempt to find a balance between order and chaos.

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 founded 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