“RISO IS IT” OIL by Bijutsu Techo
I visited “RISO IS IT,” an exhibition themed on “Risograph.”
The venue is “OIL by Bijutsu Techo,” an art space on the 2nd floor of Shibuya PARCO.
This exhibition features 33 artists active across a wide range of genres — street art, photography, painting, embroidery, and more. It is a project to exhibit and sell art prints produced using the Risograph.
Risograph is a digital printing method that uses stencil (mimeograph) printing, developed by Japan’s RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION.
Featuring high-volume, high-speed, low-cost printing, and originally developed mainly for educational settings and flyer printing, Risograph has, thanks to its distinctive texture, been reinterpreted and increasingly adopted in the art scene, primarily in Europe.
At this exhibition, 33 kinds of Risograph prints were sold in editions of 20 each, at a uniform price of 11,000 yen (including tax). They were sold not only at the OIL by Bijutsu Techo exhibition venue but also on the online store “OIL by Bijutsu Techo.”
This is a superb opportunity to collect works by artists who are usually out of easy reach, at an affordable price.
