Piero Golia: Kanazawa (5 red blocks) Germany allowing the operation of chance

allowing the operation of chance to inflect a distinctive style of painterly application and blur the boundary between observation and imagination

Published by Triangle Books

made in his studio on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard

Neue Nationalgalerie

including his contemporaries Richard Hamilton

Piero Golia: Kanazawa (5 red blocks) Germany allowing the operation of chanceThis woodcut by Piero Golia belongs to a 2018 series of traditional Japanese woodblock prints made in collaboration with artisans from Japans Mie prefecture overseen by Kyoto based studio Kamisoe. Printed on washi paper produced by Yoshiki Yamaguchi, the series bridges abstraction and figuration, formally and conceptually reimagining established aesthetics and techniques by repurposing multiple woodblocks already carved for earlier ukiyo e prints.