Ay-Ō : happy rainbow hell / Kit Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Kit (Writer on Japanese art), author.

Contributor:

Ay-o, 1931- artist.

Sukeda, Kenryō, 1941- writer of supplementary textual content.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), host institution, organizer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ay-o, 1931---Exhibitions.

Ay-o.

Art, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Japanese.

Rainbows in art.

Serigraphy--Japan--20th century.

Serigraphy.

Ay-o, 1931-.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

158 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Happy rainbow hell

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Freer Gallery of Art : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, [2023]

Summary:

"Ay-Ō Happy Rainbow Hell will accompany an exhibition of works of art by Japanese artist Ay-Ō, scheduled to open in the National Museum of Asian Art's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery on March 25, 2023 and close on September 10, 2023. Known as "The Rainbow Artist," Ay-Ō (b. 1931) is internationally regarded for his prismatic silkscreen prints and for covering a kaleidoscopic range of subjects from the human body to the natural world to glistening machinery. The artist's rainbow aesthetic is a fixation he has maintained-and by his admission, has been compelled to produce-for over six decades, with a focus on silkscreen prints since the 1970s. The exhibition Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell will feature approximately eighty works and will be the first solo show dedicated to a representative display of Ay-Ō's works in a major US museum. Ay-Ō Happy Rainbow Hell, the accompanying fully illustrated catalogue, will be the first monographic publication on Ay-Ō for an English-speaking audience. The publication provides an essay describing the artist's biography and significance as well as detailed entries for many of the works in the exhibition. The catalogue also includes a message from the artist and an essay from Ay-Ō's longtime printer Sukeda Kenryō exploring how Ay-Ō's silkscreens push the medium to its limits, taking from three months to up to a year to complete"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Printing Ay-Ō's work has been the most incredible career / Sukeda Kenryō

Ay-Ō's happy rainbow hell / Kit Brooks.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, March 25-September 10, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150 - 153) and index.

ISBN:

9781588347411

1588347419

OCLC:

1348178500