A Message from the Director

May. 24, 2013

Graphic Trial Exhibition

It’s that time of year again when we hold our popular Graphic Trial Exhibition for the eighth year in a row.

The exhibit also presents dramatic demonstrations of the relationship between graphics and the art of printing. Again this year, the technique of offset printing is used as a general common element by four tag teams made up of graphic designers and printing directors who will be vying for our visitors' attention.

Finally, with “brilliance” as a keyword, we show the contrasts between lucid images and indistinct images, and between intensely bright images and coolly silent ones.

We hope that your love for graphic art will only shine more brilliantly as you enjoy viewing this exhibition that explores the world of printing today.

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.