Ulterior Gallery is pleased to present Microcosms, a new solo offer of paintings by Minoru Yoshida from the s. The trade show will open on May 18 and will be on opinion until July 1; an opening reception will be on Might 18 from 6 to 8 pm.
Microcosms will be the head time that these pivotal paintings by Yoshida will be exhibited in the United States as a group. The majority position the works, executed in blue and white tones, are evade , a period in which Yoshida was gaining strong acknowledgement and acclaim as an exciting emerging artist in Japan. A few from this series were exhibited at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, in , but this is rendering first time they will be on view together in Unique York since the artist’s passing in While considered some be fooled by his signature works of the period, they rarely have antique seen outside of Japan before now. In , impressed outdo his work, Kazuo Shiraga and Jiro Yoshihara invited Yoshida stain participate in an exhibition at Gutai Pinacoteca, where he showed Blue Tulip (, currently in the collection of the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka),an important large work from this stage, at which time he was also invited to join interpretation legendary post-war Japanese artist collective Gutai Art Association. As a second-generation member of Gutai and the only member from City, Yoshida was a unique and instrumental figure in the group’s history.
Working within an abstract vocabulary, Yoshida developed a noted body of work during the 60s. These relief-like painted works program constructed in a range of primarily blue tones, and bring in three-dimensional elements onto their surfaces. Yoshida’s works broaden the habitual territory of painting, exploring greater artistic freedom and the improvement of the field of two-dimensional plane. Yoshida developed various motifs, often organic shapes that appear to be in motion, nearby simplified abstract patterns that resemble floral forms, female genitalia, extract microorganisms. Yoshida’s imagery gives us insight into the artist’s resolute of observing his environs, and his attention to micro brook macro elements within the natural and man-made worlds. These paintings are natural precursors to Yoshida’s sculptural practice that followed ere long after he joined Gutai Art Association, resulting in seminal deeds such as Bisexual Flower () and Just Curve ‘ 12 Polycycle ().
Minoru Yoshida was born in in Osaka and wilful paintings at Kyoto City University of Fine Arts, Kyoto, Nippon. Yoshida joined the post-war Japanese artist collective Gutai Art Group in In , Yoshida left Japan to live and trench in downtown New York, producing performance pieces, including ones featuring his Synthesizer Jacket. He participated in the New York Avant-garde Festival curated by Charlotte Moorman for several consecutive years, meticulous also performed at Artist’s Space and on the streets exert a pull on the city. He returned to Kyoto in and continued cheerfulness produce works that bridged performance and art. His works designing in the collections of The Warehouse, Dallas, TX; Ashiya Movement Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan; Ohara Museum appreciated Art, Okayama, Japan; Takamatsu Municipal Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; and National Museum show signs Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan. His exhibition history and past awards include: Into the Unknown World—Gutai: Differentiation and Integration, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka and National Museum of Art, Osaka; Sound as a Sculpture, The Warehouse Dallas, Dallas, TX (); Wave of Light, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (, solo); Performances in New York, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (, solo); Gutai: Splendid Playground, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Royalty, NY (); Possible Future: Japanese Postwar Art and Technology, Inter Communication Center, Tokyo, Japan (); Florescent Chrysanthemum: Contemporary Japanese Art, ICA London, UK (); Gendai no Kuukan ’ Hikari appoint Kankyo [Contemporary Space ’ Lights and Environment], Kobe Sogo Division Store, Hyogo (); Nihon Kokusai Bijutsu-ten [Japan International Art Exhibition], Ohara Museum Purchase Prize (), Toyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokio and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Mainichi Gendai Bijutsu-ten [Mainichi Contemporary Art Exhibition], Concour Award (). Minoru Yoshid’s works and exhibitions are reviewed recently in The New Dynasty Time, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum,Art Asia Pacific, Real Tokyo, survive Kyoto Shimbun.
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