ISOZAKI ARATA

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  • NAKANISHI NATSUYUKI

    NAKANISHI NATSUYUKI was one of the leading painters of the postwar Japanese avant-garde. After graduating from Tokyo University of the Arts, he co-founded the Hi Red Center with Jiro Takamatsu and Genpei Akasegawa in 1963, developing experimental actions and objects staged in urban spaces. He also collaborated with butoh artists such as Tatsumi Hijikata, producing stage designs and installations beyond the field of painting. From the late 1960s onward, he returned to painting in earnest, developing series including Kick the Stone at the Summit, Tangent Arc, and Purple-Violet. Through distinctive brushwork, colours such as white, purple, and yellow-green, and the relationships between curved lines and areas of colour, he explored the structure of painting and the space in which it comes into being. From the 1990s onward, he continued to investigate the possibilities of painting through an approach grounded in physical acts of creation and an awareness of space.

  • MAKI FUMIHIKO