Shusaku Arakawa, Color Samples No. 3, 1979, lithograph; recipient of the Grand Prix, 15th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 1983.
The exhibition included twenty prints made between 1974 and 1983. Shusaku Arakawa was known for his paintings, drawings, prints and innovative architectural constructions. He was one of the first protagonists of the international conceptual art movement of the 1960s. When he moved from Japan to New York in 1961, he created schematic conceptual works, also prints, in which he used word and sign systems to show and explore the mechanics of human perception and knowledge. In printmaking, he employed especially lithography and screenprinting, often also combining the two.