Kano Mitsuo
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Born in Tokyo in 1952, he became interested in copperplate printing after reading Kon Junzo's "New Techniques for Printmaking" and worked as a botanist's assistant. In 1955, a collection of copperplate engravings, Plants, was published as a private edition. In 1956, he held his first solo exhibition at the Takemiya Gallery, which was planned by Takiguchi. In 1959, won awards at international exhibitions in Japan and abroad. In 1967, Minami Gallery published "Kano Mitsuo" edited by Takiguchi. In 1977, Minami Gallery published a collection of lithographs, Lightning Catch.

In 1979, a collection of poetry and paintings with Takiguchi was published. In 1980, he held the exhibition “Kano Mitsuo’s Prints – Together with Takiguchi Shuzo –” at the Fukuoka Art Museum. Since the 1980s, he has also produced unique oil paintings that fix fluid traces like decalcomanies by manipulating acrylic sheets. In 1993, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Sezon Museum of Art and other venues, and in 2000 at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art. In 2019, the exhibition “Takiguchi Shuzo / Kano Mitsuo 《Semiotic of the Storm Petrel》 2019” was held at the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art.



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