Piero Golia: Kanazawa (5 red blocks) Germany allowing the operation of chance

allowing the operation of chance to inflect a distinctive style of painterly application and blur the boundary between observation and imagination

It was produced by the Los Angeles–based workshop Mixografia using a proprietary process for printing high-relief works they first developed in the 1970s

and newspaper clippings that he has accumulated over the years

Published by Triangle Books

Piero Golia: Kanazawa (5 red blocks) Germany allowing the operation of chanceThis woodcut by Piero Golia belongs to a 2018 series of traditional Japanese woodblock prints made in collaboration with artisans from Japans Mie prefecture overseen by Kyoto based studio Kamisoe. Printed on washi paper produced by Yoshiki Yamaguchi, the series bridges abstraction and figuration, formally and conceptually reimagining established aesthetics and techniques by repurposing multiple woodblocks already carved for earlier ukiyo e prints.