Toshio Shibata, Concrete Abstraction

Concrete Abstraction

Toshio Shibata

Publisher
Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Year
2015
Specifications
Hard Cover, Cloth binding & Slipcase
21.9 x 28.2 x 1.7 cm
112 pages, 88 images
Signed and numbered, limited edition of 600

“Occasions at which people ask me about my pictures have been increasing lately.

On the fundamental question, why landscapes, I can't offer more than a lighthearted answer referring to my desire to work outside, my hobby of travelling, and the fact that a landscape is for me the ideal environment for relaxed working without being disturbed.

Even the rather essential question, why infrastructure, I casually answer by explaining that this is something that can be found anywhere and addressed at any time — a silent object that allows for one-sided interpretation.

Well, I must have had some serious ideas back when I started working. Ideas about the originality of my work; about indirect ways of expression of human behaviour; about the country I'm living in. But now that I think about it, I know that the guy who was considering such things more than thirty years ago is still right here behind me.”

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