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Ikko Tanaka
Poster Auction XVII.
$200.00
Ikko Tanaka
Poster Auction XVII.
$200.00
Year: 1993.
Size: 27 x 39 inches
In keeping with its aims of supporting and fostering the appreciation of contemporary graphics while celebrating the lithographic traditions from which these designs sprung, Poster Auctions International commissioned a series of original poster designs to commemorate their twice-yealy sales from 1992 through 1997, at which point economic realities prevailed over artistic sentiments. The participating graphic artists comprise a who's who of the world's most-distinguished posterists, and each poster is a limited-edition of 200 numbered copies-all hand-signed-on special stock. Note that the design was also printed in an edition on regular stock to be pasted on the walls of Manhattan prior to each sale. The fact that these posters were papered over or torn down only days after they went up is another reason why these are so rare. If any single artist in the postwar period has brought Japanese posters and graphic design to the high regard in which it is universally held, it's Ikko Tanaka. Able to fuse traditional Japanese aesthetics with the demands of the contemporary poster, he updates ideograms as well as he manipulates modern alphabets, all while choosing from forms that stylize the subject of each poster with impeccable concern for their appropriateness. The winner of every major graphic award in the world, including top prize at the Warsaw Poster Biennale, he is also a superb art director whose graphic design studio turns out everything from corporate logos to packaging. This stylized figure in a kimono-of-many-posters captures the essence of his precise conceptions and winning expressions.
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