Karel Martens: Tokyo Papers

Karel Martens: Tokyo Papers

Regular Price £80.00 Sale

Roma Publications, 2020, Softcover, 80 pages, 21.5 x 15.5 cm

New / Sealed copy

A collection of 41 monoprints created by Karel Martens in 2019 and 2020, reproduced on their original size (front and back).

"In 2018 I received a package by mail from Pierre Leguillon with a small pile of used Japanese forms which he had found at a street market in Tokyo. An intriguing collection, printed on thin paper with a rectangular black-blue layer of carbon on the back. Initially in 2019 I started to print on these back sides, but because the overprinting on the carbon layer caused unwanted damage, I eventually started printing them on the front sides as well. The closing image is related to Tokyo in a different way." - Karel Martens