katsumi komagata: little eyes series: complete set

The Little Eyes Series is 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.

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.

From black and white forms suitable for babies from 3 months to little picture stories for 2 and 3 year olds, the books of the Little Eyes Series display the typical characteristics of Komagata's books: scenes of infront and behind, the changing relationships of forms and colours, discovery and surprise.

numbers 1 through 10

first published in 1990 through 1992
booklets, double-folded and leporello-folded cards

printed in Tokyo, Japan