Yumin WANG "Traveler's Book"

Yumin Wang, who won the Kenji Ishikawa Prize at the 2nd TKO International Mini Print Exhibition 2020 (Tokyo→ Kyoto→ Osaka) (1st year doctoral student at Tokyo University of the Arts) This is the first solo exhibition of . "I studied a wide variety of printmaking concepts at Tokyo University of the Arts, and while exploring printmaking expression more deeply, I learned about Japanese and Chinese techniques. Focusing on fusion, we continue to pursue the possibilities of new prints. Based in China and Japan, we have created a world of our own. I want to further disseminate it to the world." Wang Yumin says. 　This exhibition is the entire series of works "Traveler's Book", which I began working on after entering Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. I saw it in Japan Using the landscape as a motif, I projected myself into the character of a traveler, and instead of drawing the scenery of Japan as I saw it, I I overlapped the memories of the minutes and drew them as a "landscape of the mind". Nearly a year and a half of "travel" in the form of a book, this The work is a book about such travelers. 　"The Traveler's Book" combines traditional Chinese woodblock printing techniques that contain historical events such as "time and space" with Japan techniques and materials. Since I moved from China to Japan, the language I use, the people around me, and the environment in which I live have changed, so I have developed my own character. It has changed, and I want to record this trip through the eyes of a traveler, and I also want to try the combination of Japan and Chinese woodblock printing techniques. is. About 20 works, mainly woodblock prints, will be exhibited. We hope you will come and read it, and we will adopt it as an article in your media I would like to receive it, and thank you very much.　　
(B-gallery representative: Haruko Naga)