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Tanaka Nobuyuki Japanese
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With its visible workings of multiple layers, this experimental work offers unusual insight into the laborious dry-lacquer (kanshitsu) technique. Here, the ancient medium of lacquer functions as a vehicle for expressing pure form rather than containment.
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田中信行作 「記憶にあるかたち」
Title: Form Remaining in Memory
Artist:
Tanaka Nobuyuki (Japanese, born 1959)
Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
Date: 2011
Culture: Japan
Medium: Lacquer on hemp
Dimensions: H. 37 3/8 in. (95 cm); W. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); D. 12 5/8 in. (32 cm)
Classification: Lacquer
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2012
Object Number: 2012.91
Rights and Reproduction: © Tanaka Nobuyuki
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