{"id":29350,"date":"2006-03-05T20:48:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T02:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=29350"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T19:18:18","slug":"koichi-yamamoto-at-art-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/koichi-yamamoto-at-art-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Koichi Yamamoto at Art Access"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWalter Benjamin laments, in his essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Reproducibility”, that modern works of art have lost their \u201caura.\u201d Modern images, Benjamin states, no longer have the ability to inspire or create awe in their viewers. . . and I was beginning to believe that he was right until Koichi Yamamoto\u2019s current exhibition at the Art Access Gallery. With every print, Yamamoto mingles seriousness with play, and monumental forms with a sense of intimacy. His series of monotype prints all started with an impulse that his singular creative vision immediately recognized.<\/p>\n

In the beginning there was a \u201cmountain of garbage.\u201d There is a 1980\u2019s poster Koichi remembers from Osaka, Japan, promoting paper recycling. The title was \u201cA Mountain of Garbage is a Mountain of Resources.\u201d Since then, Koichi has adapted this habit of searching for an idea from many different garbage cans. “I consider that \u2018idea\u2019 as the fundamental element for making art pieces. Often I do discover it from other people\u2019s discarded, unwanted byproducts in waste bins at print studios.\u201d<\/p>\n

The monotypes presented at the Art Access Gallery are examples of Koichi\u2019s work that started from those abandoned, almost unlimited resources found in the waste cans. Being efficient is ideal, if I can utilize these byproducts of maintenance into complete art works, I would minimize waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"y2\"<\/a>Koichi began cleaning rollers on printing paper, simultaneously creating works of art from the \u201cbyproducts of maintenance.\u201d Monotype printmaking is the closest process that a printmaker gets to painting. The image is drawn, painted, scrapped, rolled, wiped, etc. etc. onto a plexiglass surface and run through the press transferring the image up to the paper. Koichi states that his monotypes represent an artistic investigation into the subject of \u201cwaste management.\u201d Out of the rubbish, he has created imposing landscapes of the imagination and images filled with motion and chaos. Yamamoto has restored my faith that artists still have the ability to inspire.<\/p>\n

The Art Access<\/a> exhibit, which also features ceramicist Dan Murphy, continues through March 10th. May 19th & 20th Koichi Yamamoto will hold a Master Class and Artist talk at Saltgrass Printmakers (click for details)<\/a>. More examples of the artist’s work can be seen here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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