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Shinkichi Tajiri - Mayday Hand signed in pencil + in the print
The print has a futuristic super glossy surface, fits perfectly with the subject.
Shinkichi Tajiri (Los Angeles, December 7, 1923 – Baarlo, Netherlands, March 15, 2009) was an American sculptor who lived in the Netherlands from 1956. He was also active in painting, photography and cinematography.
In 1949 he went to Paris to study with Ossip Zadkine and then with Fernand Léger. He met Karel Appel and Corneille in Paris and was featured in the 1949 COBRA exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 1951 he went to Germany and taught at the Werkkunstschule Wuppertal. In 1955 he won a Golden Palm at Cannes for his first short film, The Vipers, for his experimental use of cinematic language. From 1956 he lived in the Netherlands, since 1962 in Baarlo. He worked as a sculptor and painter. He exhibited at the famous Kassel documenta II, 1959; III, 1964 and IV, 1968. From 1969 Tajiri taught Shinkichi at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin. In 1969 and 1970, Shinkichi took pictures of every part of the Berlin Wall. In 1970 he went to Denmark and directed the award-winning documentary Bodil Joensen - en sommerdag juli 1970 about Bodil Joensen. In 1975 and 1976 he recreated the Daguerreotype: surrealistic portraits, nudes and daguerreotypes of the Wall.