Tokyo
1980/12/1–12/20
Artists: Yoshishige Saito, Josaku Maeda, Shin Kuno, Shu Takahashi, Hitoshi Nakazato, Yuki Katsura, Michio Fukuoka, Jiro Takamatsu, Quac Insik, Lee Ufan, Shintaro Tanaka, Kim Whanki, Kim Tschangyeul, Masao Tsuruoka, Kimiyo Mishima, Hisayuki Mogami, Minoru Kawabata, Tadashi Sugimata, Masakatsu Yamada, Yuki Katsura, Soshichi Takama, Jiro Yoshihara, Tadaaki Kuwayama and Shu Eguchi
Yuki Katsura (1913-1991) began creating collages from paper and cork in the pre-war period, and became a prolific artist who employed a variety of techniques and styles to draw various modes of paintings from abstraction, satires and caricatures. Before World War II, Katsura was a frequent participant of the Avant-Garde Western Painting Research Institute, which was established by painters such as Togo Seiji. Katsura was heavily involved in the genesis of the Japanese avant-garde movement, and was a founding member of the avant-garde Kyushitsukai group within Nikaten. Yuki Katsura provides us the key to understand the continuity of Japanese art before and after the war.
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