Japanese woodblock prints

Exhi­bi­tion from 07.09.2022 — 15.10.2022

 

 

On the sec­ond floor of the gallery, Japan­ese wood­block prints from the 18th and 19th cen­turies by Hiroshige, Hoku­sai, Uta­maro, Eishi and Shun­shõ, among oth­ers, are on display.

The artist, born in Bangkok in 1952, has been work­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly on work blocks in small for­mat for years. On the one hand, he com­pos­es col­ored sur­faces with pig­ments on the paper primed with beeswax. The sec­ond group of works com­pris­es reduced black and white pic­ture compositions.

Suvat grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Arts in Vien­na. Since 1983 the artist has par­tic­i­pat­ed in numer­ous exhi­bi­tions and exhi­bi­tion par­tic­i­pa­tions in Aus­tria, Ger­many and Italy. Suvat lives and works in Vienna.