Ibe Kyoko
Japanese, born 1941
Galaxy (Fugetsudoten; 風月同天)
INV-2286
Ibe Kyoko
Japanese, born 19412014
Galaxy (Fugetsudoten; 風月同天)
Ibe Kyoko Japanese, born 1941 →21st Centurypainting
Date
2014
Medium
Pair of paintings stretched on frames; old documents, mineral pigments, mica, gold and silver on gampi paper
Dimensions
Each: 180 × 75 cm (70 7/8 × 29 9/16 in.); 180.1 × 75 cm (70 7/8 × 29 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by the Asian Art Council of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kyoto-based artist Ibe Kyoko pioneered the use of a textured paper made with gampi—a kind of Japanese shrub—in contemporary art. She researched ancient methods and extant works of art to arrive at her unique process of mixing mineral pigments in with gampi fibers. The calligraphy fragments set into the paper that constitutes this work are pieces of manuscript books from the late Edo to Meiji period (about 1850–1868) that she either purchased from antique dealers or were in her family.
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