Product Description
Tokuko Shimizu: TEXTILE POSTERS
Authors = Kanako Iwanaka, Gottingham, Miho Shimizu, Øyvind Renberg
Publisher = flick studio
Format = B5 portrait format
Number of pages: 72
Language = Japanese, English (bilingual)
Price = ¥3,182 + tax
Publication date = March 2022
ISBN = 978-4-904894-54-5
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The book features posters made with embroidery, patchwork, and various other textile techniques.
This is the first survey of the art of Tokuko Shimizu, a housewife, mother, and art enthusiast with an enduring creative passion, whose production displays unique techniques and invention. The book concentrates on Shimizu’s textile posters series, embroidered on commission by her globetrotting artist daughter, Miho. Beautiful color reproductions of the posters are interspersed with new photographic projects by Gottingham that explore the personal relationship between mother and daughter. Accompanied by an in-depth interview and a detailed index and exhibition history, the book chronicles the overlap of art and life in a family with a rare artistic collaboration.
[Table of Contents]
Foreword
Textile Posters
A total of 21 full-color textile posters by Tokuko Shimizu, created from 2002 to 2019.
Interview
Interview with Tokuko Shimizu. She talks about how she came to make textile posters, the difficulty of a long distance collaboration with her daughter’s artist group Danger Museum in Europe, how she got started in art and creative activities, and why she has continued to make works even though she is not a typical professional artist. Interviewer / Text: Kanako Iwanaka
Index
The index includes all textile posters created from 2002 to 2019, along with information about each piece (work number, work name, page number, year of creation, technique/material, size, and collection) and exhibition information (exhibition name/event name, venue name, location, and year of exhibition).
Her Posters
About the photographic project “Her Posters” by the book’s co-author, Gottingham.
Afterword
Artist and Danger Museum co-director, Øyvind Renberg, writes about his encounters and experiences with Tokuko Shimizu and Danger Museum. Text: Øyvind Renberg
Timeline
A brief timeline of the life and work of Tokuko Shimizu.
Authors
Profiles of the authors of this book: Kanako Iwanaka, Gottingham, Miho Shimizu, and Øyvind Renberg.