Voice of Wind

About the Work

From the Artist

I have always used a silk screen that can print evenly colored surfaces, or it can be said to be non-personalized, to create my own works by repeatedly printing color layers on paper. For me, this kind of repeated overprinting is a necessary procedure to materialize the intended color. I try to grasp the reaction to the subtle stains, the resistance to the color layers of the picture and the luster that naturally appear in the production process, and to grasp the scale in the relationship between me and the picture, hoping that the work can become a personalized and materialized color. 
 _{—Excerpted from https://cn.prints-prints.com/bandao/artist/junji_amano.php, accessed 6-18-2021}

Out of the window of my seat in an Amtrak train on the way from New York to Philadelphia, I was gazing at a setting red sun over an opening in the black forest. The composition remained in my eyes as an afterimage of a section or edge of the space extending from black stripes...Refraining from excessive expression—this has been something like a self-imposed theme I have always had, and that's why I have worked in an environment of minimal art so far, excluding as many elements as possible...Minimal itself appears to be a restraint upon freedom of expression, but contrary to what might be expected by many, the act of daring to pursue expression under such conditions, it seems to me, has been an act of pursuing freedom of expression or originality.

Materials are very precious to me; I always try to bring out the best in my works. The process of creating screen printings and paintings are the same. There are no boundaries. 
_{—Excerpted from https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/7601486/junji-amano-the-ewing-gallery, accessed 6-18-2021}

Junji Amano, who has a reputation for pursuing the material life of a flat surface by screen printing, is not limited to print media, but is painting work by the printing technique of layering acrylic and pigment layers on Arche paper made with modeling paste. This work of a writer who steadily tackles the criticality of flatness and pictorial expression has the steps of those who face expression and the light of its path, away from the hustle and bustle. 
_{—Excerpted from http://omotesando-garo.com/link.15/amano.html, accessed 6-18-2021}