Body 身(Shin) - Kyosuke Chinai 智内兄助 (b 1948) - Japan

About the Works
Technique lithograph
Artist Kyosuke Tchinai 智内兄助(b 1948)
Title: Body 身(Shin)
signed and numbered 152/180
Overall size: approx. 59.5cm x 77.5cm
image size: approx. 32cm x 48cm

Kyosuke Tchinai was born in Ehime Prefecture in 1948.
After studying oil painting at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and at postgraduate level, he established a unique painting method using acrylic paints on Japanese paper in the early 1980s, reaching an innovative method of expression that transcended the boundaries between Japanese and Western painting.His style, based on the traditional Japanese beauty of costume patterns, the beauties of nature, and the “beauty of things,” combined with his unique technique, creates a fantasy world that is uniquely Tchinai’s own.
He has won numerous awards, including the Yasui Prize, as an “artist” who captures Japanese aesthetics in a novel way without deviating from the tradition of the classics.Since 1992, when he was in charge of the illustrations for Tomiko Miyao’s serialized novel “Kura” published in the Mainichi Shimbun, his popularity and name recognition have become immovable.
Since 2002, he has held a solo exhibition in France every four years at Galerie Tamenaga.
His works have been collected by Roger Federer, a former professional tennis player, and the Rothschild family, one of the largest collectors in Europe, and have attracted many collectors from around the world.

Awards:
1971 Shell Art Prize Exhibition, Honorable Mention
1978-1981 1st, 2nd and Special Prize, Figaro Prize for Contemporary Art in France-Japan
2nd Prize, Bibliothèque des Arts Bibliothéques.
Japan Side Prize, Honorable Mention, Second Prize
1984 Yasui Prize, Selected Exhibition, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1985 Selected, Tokyo Central Museum Oil Painting Grand Prize Exhibition
Grand Prize, Drawing Grand Prize, Contemporary Figure Exhibition
1986 First Liquitex Biennial, Liquitex Prize
1987 Yasui Prize Exhibition, Honorable Mention
1990 Excellent Prize, Japan Young Artists Exhibition
1988 Yasui Prize Exhibition, Honorable Mention
2009 Bratislava World Picture Book Original Drawing Exhibition, Gold Prize
2015 Yonden Art and Culture Award (Yonden Cultural Promotion Foundation)

Appearance
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Margins are tanning and some of the paper is sagging a bit.

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