Signed, dated, and numbered on the lower right of the verso.
There is slight undulation throughout and stain marks in the lower right and lower left corners.

Akira Kanayama is a Japanese avant-garde artist known for his innovative experimental works using unconventional media, and he was one of the early members of the Gutai Art Association. In 1952, Kanayama founded the "Zero Society (Zero-kai)" along with younger members of the Shinseisaku Kyokai, such as Kazuo Shiraga and Saburo Murakami, in pursuit of more radical artistic experiments. During his time with the Zero Society, Kanayama pushed the boundaries of pictorial expression by reducing formal elements like shapes and lines to their absolute limits. In 1955, he, along with Shiraga, Murakami, and Tanaka, was invited by Jiro Yoshihara to join the Gutai Art Association, leading him to significantly expand his work by exploring various media as a means of artistic expression.

The featured work is part of a series presented at Gallery KURANUKI in Osaka in 1992. In this series, Kanayama captured the waveforms of sounds emitted from famous classical music compositions on paper, visually expressing these invisible sound waves through artistic form. Kanayama describes this process as an attempt to capture the beauty of a piece of music in an instant. Completed over twenty years after the initial concept, Kanayama noted that this series was only possible in the era of computers at that time. Even more than thirty years later, the spirit of contemporary art embodied in this work remains relevant today.

Gallery KURANUKI, Osaka