Paper Between Ink Stain & Ink Stain
Shōichi Ida, Japanese, 1941 - 2006
about 1981
Two-sided serigraph on washi mounted on paper
Edition 3/20
Image: 24 13/16 × 18 5/16 in. (63 × 46.5 cm)
Sheet: 39 7/16 × 27 13/16 in. (100.1 × 70.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of The Wise Collection; Joanne and Douglas Wise, Class of 1959
© Shoichi Ida
2010.78.5
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Shoichi Ida; titled, in graphite, lower center: "Paper Between Ink Stain and Ink Stain"; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 3/20
Label
“Paper is paper,” Ida Shōichi once stated in an interview. As an experimental printmaker and draughtsman, Ida challenged the belief in an artist’s total control of the material. He claimed that materials have their own natural characteristics, and the artist’s role is to act as a mediator, allowing the needs of the medium to be revealed. Ida contextualized this idea in his Surface Is Between series, as displayed in this gallery. He compressed ink stains on different sides of the paper to allow the pigment to spread across both, creating a unique and free form.
From the 2024 exhibition Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art, curated by Haely Chang, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Associate Curator of East Asian Art
Course History
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums...?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2026
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.11, Religion 2.02, Religions of Vietnam, Sara Swenson, Winter 2025
Geography 3.01, Living with Nature, Coleen Fox, Winter 2025
Philosophy 50.18, Animal Minds, Tina Rosenqvist, Winter 2025
Religion 40.08, Fear & Loathing in Religion, MK Long, Winter 2025
Art History 63.02, Why Are Museums…?, Mary Coffey, Spring 2025
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2025
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Marco D'Angelo, Spring 2025
Religion 1.13, Sacred Movement, Robert Weiner, Spring 2025
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 70.24, Asian American Art and Architecture, Sujin Eom, Spring 2025
College Course 26.01, What’s in Your Toolbox?, Casey Aldrich and Mokhtar Bouba, Fall 2025
Comparative Literature 55.03, Asian Societies, Culture, and Language 60.10, Eco-Fiction: Stories of Ghosts and Other Beings from Premodern China, Yiren Zheng, Fall 2025
Special Tour: Attitude of Coexistence and Beyond the Bouquet, Winter 2025
Exhibition History
Attitude of Coexistence: Non-humans in East Asian Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 26-June 29, 2025.
The Wise Collection, curated by students in Joy Kenseth’s Art History 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Spring 2012, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7 – July 31, 2012.
Provenance
Douglas and Joanne Wise, Grantham, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2010.
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