








Toshio Shibata
Painting
Landscapes that are both intimate and spectacular, echoing the art of painting which Toshio Shibata studied. This book is designed as a journey, which literally unfolds, through artificial yet grandiose landscapes.
The book Painting reveals 16 unpublished colour photographs by Toshio Shibata, a Japanese photographer who is known for his rigorous and meticulous compositions. The representation of intimate yet spectacular landscapes — natural, and especially artificial — are at the core of Shibata’s work. In keeping with the tradition of painting that Shibata studied in his early years in 1968, this book celebrates the abstraction of beauty. It has been designed in a concertina format that can also be turned into a suspended object — just like a kakemono, a Japanese unframed scroll painting made on paper or silk and displayed as a wall hanging.
Editorial direction: Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi
Desing: Akiko Wakabayashi
20 pages
16 colours plates
21 x 27 cm
Hardcover leporello with a ribbon on the spine to hang the book vertically
English / French
Publication date: 9 July 2021
ISBN : 979-10-96383-24-5