A Message from the Director

Sep. 1, 2012

This Is Printing, Too!? Surprises Galore Exhibition

You can print regular letters on regular paper, and you can change the color if you want. That’s the extent of regular printing. But if you stretch your imagination, you can print letters that glow or shine, or letters that are bumpy or rough. Embossed letters can be printed, and the printed paper itself might undergo a change in shape.

The methods of producing such effects are called special printing techniques, and the effects they achieve can be truly astounding. Works made by employing special printing techniques can be enjoyed not only with your eyesight, but will appeal to all five of your senses, including your senses of touch and smell.

Come and delight in this exhibition that features works made by using these amazing state-of-the-art special printing techniques.

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

Koichi Kabayama

Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo

Born in Tokyo in 1945. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1965, and after completing the masters degree course at the university became a research assistant at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University in 1969. Became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo in 1976, and later became a professor. Served as the Director-General of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo from 2001, becoming Director of the Printing Museum, Tokyo in 2005, a position he still holds. His fields of specialization are Western history and Western cultural history.