Utagawa Hiroshige
Okabe: The narrow, ivy-covered path at Mount Utsu
1855, Edo (Tokio)
colour woodcut on Japanese paper
36 x 23 cm
Utagawa Hiroshige
The ferry at Kawaguchi and the Zenkō temple
1857, Edo (Tokio)
colour woodcut on Japanese paper
34 x 22 cm
Utagawa Hiroshige, Japanese printmaker and painter, was particularly renowned for his landscape prints, such as the series “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo”. His woodcuts had a great influence on other printmakers. Hiroshige's work was also popular in the West at the end of the 19th century with collectors and artists, such as Van Gogh and Gauguin.
My fascination with Eastern civilizations and visual cultures led me to increasingly explore similarities, differences and frictions between Eastern and Western visual languages, in an attempt to unify and integrate them into my work. The meditation and thoughts that arose from this, produced an amalgam of new visual elements and techniques - as often happens with me. Certain works, for example the painting “Subaru (Manga)”, bear traces of Japanese printmaking, both in form and content. It is mainly Hiroshige's woodcuts that sharpened my view on this medium. I find the simplicity, the clarity and the accuracy in composition, execution and presentation very special.
Lode Laperre, 2022
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