"AIKO MIYAWAKI/1960-1980"
Arata Isozaki
Japanese, born 1931
1980
A silkscreen on silver paper exhibition poster by Arata Isozaki announcing a 1960–1980 retrospective of Aiko Miyawaki, using stark contrast and refined typography to stage the artist's presence.
A deep black field centers a ghostly, pale oval negative portrait that seems to float on metallic paper, its angular, geometric title lettering above and a row of tiny photographic vignettes along the bottom giving the composition a cinematic, medal‑like austerity.
The poster shows how late‑20th‑century Japanese designers and architects treated exhibition graphics as a conceptual extension of art and architecture—merging minimalist form, photographic trickery, and unusual substrates to make publicity itself an object.
Medium
Silkscreen on silver paper
Dimensions
34 7/16 x 24 3/8" (87.5 x 62 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the designer
Accession
261.1981
Palette
Exhibitions
