katsumi komagata: little eyes series: book 1 - first look

(beginning for babies)

A part of a collection of books where each book introduces a theme or a concept to form one big book, in which each part is necessary but remains independent.

A set of twelve double-folded black and white cards of various geometric forms for babies from 3 months.

Starting from the simplicity of the forms, Katsumi Komagata is able to show the complexity of their relations. Book after book, he looks into and reveals the entire vocabulary of art: the drawing, the surfaces, the form, the colour, the rhythm, the solid and the empty, the volume. The images maintain a common denominator. An image does not ever substitute another, but contains it, because the author communicates his own conception of the world based on the one principal that links everything together.

first published in 1990

printed in Tokyo, Japan