Label Text:
Since the mid-1960s, Noda Tetsuya has created prints using multiple techniques, including mimeograph, silkscreen, and woodblock printing. This combination of processes allows him to integrate self-generated imagery—the carving of the woodblock is singular and intimate, reliant on the technical mastery of the artist—with appropriated forms of mass media, most often photographs from newspapers or magazines. With titles reflecting the dates on which Noda produced them, these "Diary" works present themselves as impersonal records of consumption—referencing precisely when Noda bought, read, and dismantled each publication—yet communicate the artist’s personal sentiment in the organization and composition of the work. Here, Noda has repurposed an image of lemons, placing it against a woodblock-printed background. In so doing, he has literally carved out a new home for the silk-screened fruits, creating an individual artwork from an otherwise impersonal, serial image.
BB, 2014
Subjects:
screen prints; Silk Link to share this object record:
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