Gaze － Follow the Aching Spray 27

Mituso Kano is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Tokyo in 1933. While devoted to modern French poetry, including that of Rimbaud, Kano also showed an interest in forms of minerals and plants. Kano began teaching himself etching and held his first solo show at Takemiya Gallery in Tokyo on the recommendation of poet and art critic Shuzo Takiguchi. From the late 1950s, Kano began producing illusory works employing expressions of corrosive effect of copper plates. He has been awarded in several print exhibitions in Japan and abroad. Subsequently Kano began to use other techniques such as lithograph and intaglio. In the mid 1960s, representational forms by line drawing vanished from Kano’s works, replaced by bright colors. In 1979, around the time of Takiguchi’s death, Kano started producing oil paintings full of fluidity, using bright colors and the decalcomania technique.
Gaze - Follow the Aching Spray 27 is one of the 77 works of the Gaze - Follow the Aching Spray series. Kano skillfully controlled the decalcomania technique, which relies on contingency, to create a distinctive abstract world.