Kicking-Harvest
2006
Silk-screen [Serigraphy]                            

Masahiro Fukuda                               
Residence: Osaka, Japan
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan

In my school days, I majored in Graphic Design and devoted myself to making posters. Several years had passed since I graduated. I looked around and I found that younger people had been participating actively in international competitions. Their success was a great stimulus to me. Then I thought I wanted to take an active part too. As I thought that, I changed my way of presentation from ‘tableau’ to ‘silkscreen’.

As for silkscreen, there was no way but self-education. So, I made every effort to master silkscreen. I started printing in 1986, and I was 35 years old. It was by no means an early debut, but considering I have another job as an art teacher at a junior high school, it could not be helped. First, I debuted as a ‘modern art-artist’, and I started to make my ‘Blue Series’ works on the model of the great Picasso. I used the same technique as new-silkscreen, but I didn’t make an edition, instead, I made a landscape canvas size, F-60. Two blue poles stand in a scene that is made by gradation. Fortunately, for this series, I won the Grand Prize of the ‘Exposition, France-Japon’ [1986]. Still, more time and effort were essential for me to turn from a ‘modern art-artist’, into a ‘print artist’.

Afterwards, this pattern came to a deadlock, and in 1988, the ‘Red Organism Series’, which links to the present, was started. At the beginning, ‘Red Mass’ was only a factor that filled space on the picture, and gradually, it grew up to become ‘Red Organic Matter’. Moreover, it got personality.

Also, the theme has been changing: “Images From The Bible” Series; ‘Crusdae’ Series; ‘Relation’ Series; ‘In’ Series; & ‘Power’ Series. The people that see and feel my work will complete the works. I consistently take this way from the ‘Blue’ Series.

On the latest series, people do not ask about the ‘Red Organic Matter’—‘What do you represent?’, or ‘What is this?’. They imagine this for themselves…not ‘seeing the print’, but ‘reading the print’. I shall be happy should you become excited figuring out the ‘mystery of suspense’ story. In the future, I don’t know where my works proceed. I am sure they’ll go varying as the world supports them.

- My printed works are one-half specific image.
- I have been working on the ‘Red Organism’ Series since 1988.
- The ‘Red Organism’ has personality.
- They wait, sit down in a chair, and walk in town.
- The swelling image hopes to be a universal story.
- My work is a message card for the visitor.
- I would like to present you my personal message through my works.
- I hope my works to be experienced as ‘Reading Prints’, not ‘Seeing Prints’.
- I will present you new, intellectual works.

Born in 1951, in Osaka, Japan, and graduated from Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan, in 1975.

Education
Graduate, Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka Japan

2008
Solo Exhibition, Split Graphic Art Museum, Split, Croatia
‘miniprint2008’, 7th Lessedra World Art Annual Mini Print, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

2007
Solo Exhibition, Naranca Gallery, Split, Croatia
International Graphic Biennale, Split, Croatia [Award from Public]
IV International Engraving Biennial of Douro, Engraving Museum of Douro, Alijó, Douro, Portugal
400th Anniversary, International Print Exhibition, Quebec, Canada