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SHOGEN Silk Screen Print Lana 8

Technique
Silkscreen
Material
Arche Paper
Certificate of Authenticity
with COA
Sign
signed
Year of production
2025
Size
39.5 × 29 cm
Frame Option
framed
Frame Size
56 × 44 × 2 cm
Weight
1kg
  • Artwork price
  • ¥100,000
  • Consumption Tax
  • ¥10,000
  • Total price (tax included)
  • ¥110,000
  • アート
  • グラフィック
  • シルクスクリーン
  • 作品
Limited to 50 pieces
SHOGEN Silkscreen Prints

Based on African art, Tinga Tinga, which is painted using only 2 to 6 colors such as black, white, red, yellow, blue, and green without any preliminary sketching, the vivid colors are then covered by swirling over them with a single color of paint. By repeating this process, people and living creatures emerge.
A work created by stopping adding drawings and rather subtracting (filling in) instead.

This work is a silk screen piece, hand-crafted by a long-established print workshop, limited to 50 copies worldwide.
Silk screen printing involves using one color per plate, where a screen (mesh) stretched on a frame (wood or aluminum) is blocked so that ink cannot pass through except for the parts corresponding to the design or pattern. Ink is then pressed through the holes of the design or pattern onto the paper or fabric below using a squeegee.
Because it specializes in pop expressions and sharp, edgy colors, this technique has been favored by Andy Warhol, Hiro Yamagata, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Masao Otake, and others.

Instead of deciding what to paint, the subject emerges by painting over lines accidentally created by the materials placed on the canvas. Without intention, the work is created as if it is being embossed, and SHOGEN always thinks about what this work is trying to convey.

A painting of a cat sitting on flowers or something like stones.
This work was created while I was in Europe. During that time, a woman calling herself "Lana" appeared in my dreams almost every night, so I named the piece "Lana." Could she have been the goddess of art?
This cat gently gazes at my current self and reflects the state of my heart right now.
This is a piece I want you to display to see the present within yourself.

As a characteristic of silkscreen printing, one plate is required per color. For this work, eight plates are used, each printed by hand by craftsmen using uniquely mixed paints, one color at a time.

Since the original artwork's style features beautiful textures of color and color, to reproduce it, the artist repeatedly adds and removes details on each plate, creating a print that is not a so-called digital color separation or composite.

Hand-signed with edition number.

With the advancement of technology, printmaking has increasingly been produced using mechanical techniques, but this silk screen production was carried out almost entirely by hand.
Each color is printed one by one using silk screens made for each color. This is a craftsmanship that can only be achieved by a print studio with over 40 years of experience.

The printed works are rigorously inspected, and 50 sheets are selected.

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