Masashi Ozaki Meister (printer of printmaker)

Last update date May 8, 2023

Masashi Ozaki, Meister face photo

Ozaki Masashi Ozaki
Printmaker

Selected in fiscal 2009 (14th term)
Lives in Tsurumi Ward

Born in 1950, Born in Sapporo
Print House O-M was established in 1975.
He has served as a special technical advisor to Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., part-time lecturer at Iwate University, and lecturer at Setagaya Art Museum.

Incorporating new technologies based on traditional technologies

Suriers who run print studios often produce their own, but Ozaki has become a "painter's brush" because of the belief that the printmaker is behind the painter's brush. It is always aiming to be dyed in color, and responds to requests from many famous artists.
"For craftsmen, mastering traditional techniques is just basic. Using new technologies and providing them to artists is the responsibility required of modern craftsmen. "
He has been a lecturer at many museums and art universities, such as self-produced copperplate ink, how to tailor rasa using copperplate printing, and preparing and handling printing paper.
In addition to employee education, we also operate workshop studios for the general public, and strive to spread the world of our own technology and sliding to the general public.

Meister's skill

Masashi Ozaki, Meister's work

In Europe, the United States, and Japan, it is common for sliters to be divided into version types such as woodblock prints, copperplate prints, and lithography.

However, Mr. Ozaki learned not only woodblock printing techniques he learned from childhood, but also stoneblue and copperplate printing techniques from the age of 15, and went to a printing shop to learn offset printing and printing techniques and gravure printing technology. Was.

For this reason, Mr. Ozaki has deep knowledge and experience in woodblock materials and materials used in all versions, including wood, copper, stone, silk, and even digital techniques, and is a sliding master who can perform comprehensive sliding. Has unique skills.

Profile

Stone slabs

He learned the techniques of carving and sliding woodblock prints from the father of a woodblock painter since childhood.

I was fascinated by the slab of Kojin Toneyama, which he met when he was in sixth grade in elementary school, and studied slab printing as an apprentice of a printing craftsman while in high school.

After graduating from high school, he joined the Japan Artists Federation. At the age of 23, he passed the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Overseas Training, and engaged in printmaking for leading Western painters in France.

After returning to Japan, he established a print studio in Tokyo at the age of 25, and after several relocations, he moved his studio to Yokohama at the age of 47.

He is involved in printmaking by many painters such as Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Tatsuo Takayama, and Kojin Toneyama, and the production of Akira Kurosawa's print collection "Ran".

In addition, he will develop and improve print paper on behalf of Specialty Paper Co., Ltd.

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