Copper prints in early stages of Yukio Fukazawa Aug. 2 (Thu) - Sep. 16 (Sun) 2012 Mr. Yukio Fukazawa was born in Taisho 13 in Yamanashi Prefecture. He drew Oil painting for a while after the Showa 23 Tokyo University of the Arts graduation. However, it became difficult to walk from the crack received in war, and he gave up oil painting of a big screen, and began to make copper prints by self-education. He won the prize for an excellent work of the present Japan fine-arts exhibition in Showa 37, and he taught Mexico copper prints technique over Showa 38 by invitation of the Mexico Society for Promotion of International Cultural Relations. After that, he was fascinated with the climate, humanity, and intense primary color in Mexico, replaced the monochrome print till then, and came to make many color prints. He developed such various techniques that it is called God of copper prints technique as his work "Technique of copper prints" shows. He won the Banko . Di . Rome prize award on the Firenze international print biennial in Showa 47. Moreover, he sent his work at every-country-in-the-world main exhibitions including the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, and Belgium. He received the Medal for Culture Merits (Aguilar Azteca Medal) from the Mexico government in Heisei 6. Many art museums, such as The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), Mexico National Print Art Museum, and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, possess Fukazawa's works now. We exhibit and introduce this time about twenty monochrome works until 1963 when he met with the Mexico ancient civilization from 1955 when he started copper prints. They are the copper prints which he started out of disappointment, and precious works in which power of the soul not yielding are impressed. Five trial products existing only one are also exhibited for the first time. Please view.

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"A night ear" 1955, Catalogue No. 2, 11.2*10.3cm		"Mr. I's portrait" 1955, Catalogue No. 8, 23.2*16.4cm Yamanashi Prefectural Museum possession
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"A man" 1955, Catalogue No. 12, 18*12cm		No title 1955, 14*18cm * trial product existing only one
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"Ill Bone B" 1955, Catalogue No. 15, 23.7*18.4cm Chiba City Museum of Art possession Minami-alps Syunsen Museum possession		"Ill Bone E" 1955, Catalogue No. 18, 25.2*17.9cm Chiba City Museum of Art possession Yamanashi Prefectural Museum possession
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"Dance" 1957, Catalogue No. 38, 27*36cm Yamanashi Prefectural Museum possession		"Capocchio"from La Divina Commedia by Dante 1957, Catalogue No. 53, 74.7*49.8cm Chiba City Museum of Art possession Yamanashi Prefectural Museum possession

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