page_title: Koji Enokura
section_title: Later works on canvas
hierarchical_section_title: Koji Enokura / Career / Later works on canvas
caption_attribution_description: English: "Intervention No. 1", 1987, 248.5 x 333.3 x 30 cm, Cotton cloth, acrylic, woodCourtesy of the Estate of Koji Enokura and Blum &amp; Poe, photo by Joshua White 日本語: 干渉 No. 1, 1987年、248.5 x 333.3 x 30 cm、綿布、アクリル塗料、Courtesy of the Estate of Koji Enokura and Blum &amp; Poe、Photo by Joshua White
context_page_description: Kōji Enokura was a Japanese painter and installation artist.
  He was one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.
context_section_description: During the 1980s and 1990s, Enokura continued to explore the act of staining on cotton-fabric. In these works, which are titled Intervention or Intervention (Story)  and are numbered sequentially, the artist typically contrasted smooth fields of black paint with unpainted fabric, sometimes drenching the entire surface. In several canvases he used oil-soaked beams of lumber to mark the fabric—either affixing the beams to the work or leaning them against it.
  Some works from this period feature shelves that support glass bottles filled with sand and water, or in one unusual case a potted plant. Enokura also created numerous works consisting of fabric in single or double layers hung diagonally on the wall and folding out onto the floor.
caption: "Intervention No. 1", 1987
  248.5 x 333.3 x 30 cm
   Cotton cloth, acrylic, wood
  Courtesy of the Estate of Koji Enokura and Blum & Poe
  Photo by Joshua White
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