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Tiger Tateishi (Tateishi Koichi) 立石大河亞（立石紘一）
Torino 都靈
1972
Torino is a monochrome pencil drawing featuring an urban street setting, drawn in a unique style exemplifying Tiger Tateishi’s use of optical illusions and distorted perspectives—techniques the artist developed during his time working as an illustrator for the Italian designer Ettore Sottsass. Created during the artist’s prolonged stay in Italy between 1969 and 1982, Torino depicts a psychedelic streetscape of Turin filled with various cars travelling down a multi-lane road. The objects in the drawing look almost flat, recalling the drawing styles of classical Japanese paintings. Here, Tateishi uses the lines demarcating the street lanes to create an unlikely vanishing point in the lower half of the picture plane. The result is a dynamic and fanciful scene appearing to fold at the horizon like a two-dimensional surface. The work can be seen as an important precursor to Japanese Neo-Pop art that emerged in the 1990s. It was also whilst Tateishi was in Italy that he began to experiment and develop the iconic style of dividing the picture plane into smaller cells as normally used in comics and illustrated novels.
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