Kozo Inoué (1937-2017) - Color lithograph - Flight of doves

Kozo Inoué (1937-2017), Japanese artist. Color lithograph. In flights of doves. Modern pine frame and under plexiglass. Signed at the bottom right, and titled at the bottom left. Dimensions with frame: 36x29cm. Dimensions without frame: 32x25cm. Very good condition. Kozo Inoue (1937-2017) is an internationally renowned Japanese painter and printmaker, a key master of art silkscreen printing. His work, at the intersection of Zen aesthetics and Western surrealism, is famous for its minimalist compositions with clean graphics, bathed in silence and gradients of colors with absolute fluidity. Born in Osaka, Japan, Kozo Inoue first studied art history at Keio University in Tokyo, graduating in 1960. That same year, he chose to move to France to further his artistic training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. Falling in love with French culture, he decided to establish his studio in Paris and would thereafter share his entire life and career between France and Japan. It is in the heart of the Parisian art scene that he specializes almost exclusively in the technique of silkscreen printing. Applying exceptional meticulousness and technical rigor to this process, Inoue becomes a virtuoso of inking. He develops perfect chromatic transitions, with no visible breaks to the naked eye, which give his works a cottony atmosphere and an unprecedented sense of depth, free from the rules of classical perspective. Kozo Inoue's work is based on the poetry of nature and the economy of means. His favorite motifs are simple, often suspended in the midst of a vast spatial void: lotus flowers, isolated poppies, stylized fruits, or pure silhouettes of birds soaring in the sky. By bringing together the Japanese notion of emptiness (the Ma) with modern abstraction, his creations exude a profound sense of serenity and calm.