Small Ivy, 1969

Basel 2015
Small Ivy

Taka Ishii Gallery

Photography
Photo emulsion, graphite on canvas
151.1 x 176.6 （厘米）
59.5 x 69.5 （吋）
Kunié Sugiura Small Ivy, 1969 Photo emulsion, graphite on canvas 151.1 x 176.5 cm Since studying under conceptual photographer Kenneth Josephson, Kunié Sugiura (1942-) has produced an array of works through the adoption of various techniques in photography. Sugiura’s oeuvre comprising of color photographs, works created through the combined application of the photograph and acrylic on canvas, and photograms conceived by motifs in everyday life, respectively serve as a continuous exploration of the relationship between photography and other media, and seek to question the ‘object’ and its abstraction as captured within the context of the photographic image. Influences from traditional Japanese aesthetics such as notions of ephemerality and transience also appear to resonate within Sugiura’s works. The images depicted in “Tree Trunk Bark 3” (1971) and “Small Ivy” (1969), are fixed through direct application and exposure of photographic emulsion on canvas.