Moving As One brings together a selection of Aoki's woodblock prints that trace the tender, sometimes fleeting moments of modern human encounters. Aoki's graphic style is built on clear, bold shapes with an economy of shadow. His figures, rendered through the tactile labor of the woodblock, repeat and echo across the picture plan to serve as a reminder that no gesture, no crossing of paths, belongs to just one person.
The vibrant, expressive forms in Aoki's prints pulse with the joy of proximity. Whether figures are moving together or drifting past one another, they share a visual language which suggests that beneath our individual trajectories, we are made of common stuff. His use of repetition is not mere pattern, it is argument. We recur in one another. We rhyme.
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Photo by TERASHIMA Hiromi
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Tetsuo Aoki is a Japanese woodblock printmaker born in 1940 in Fujieda, Japan. He has spent decades exploring one of humanity's most elemental needs: connection. Aoki describes the theme of his artwork as expressing "the pleasure, the deepness and the importance of touching each other."
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