Shu Takahashi Copperplate Etching 3-Piece Set

Takahashi Shuu Copperplate Etching 3-Piece Set

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Large: Firenze 2
Reference Price: ¥48,000 + tax
Height 565 x Width 445 (mm)

Small ①: Kaitakushi Hokkaido
Height 325 x Width 260 (mm)

Small ②: Seagull II Special
Height 325 x Width 260 (mm)

How about a set of 3?

Purchased at a department store event and displayed. I can no longer display them in my new home, so I would like to pass them on to someone.

Please check the images for any scratches on the frames.

Takahashi Shuu Biography

Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1951. Began painting oil paintings in his teens. Graduated from Hokkaido University, Faculty of Agriculture.
Resigned from a trading company that imported agricultural products and moved to England (1980-1981). After returning to Japan, he began creating copperplate etchings.
Continued to create while teaching English and mathematics at a cram school. Became a full-time copperplate etching artist in 1990.
Has held numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and department stores in various cities across the country.

Takahashi Shuu's Comments
Life is often compared to a journey, and fragments of various encounters and experiences overlap to become memories of the journey.
My subjects of expression have evolved from concrete things to eventually abstract forms. I create my works as if collecting fossil specimens that encapsulate memories within stones. I hope to be able to view them objectively, as if they were created somewhere, sometime.
The method of placing images on the hard material of copperplate is suitable for expressing suppressed emotions and a dry, slightly inorganic sensibility. I print on unbleached Japanese paper, incorporating bark and dried leaves, and use stencils, applying kimono stencil dyeing techniques for coloring.
I painted oil paintings from my teens, but about 30 years ago, I quit my job and went to Europe to seriously pursue art. I remember that despite my resolve, great anxiety spread beneath the lead-colored winter sky. I started copperplate etching after seeing it in Europe.
I intend to continue creating, following the images I want to draw like pulling a thread.