Tokyo
1964/10/5–10/17
Aritsts: Yukihisa Isobe, Yukiko Katsura, Hiroshi Akana, Kumiko Emi, Eisaku Tanaka, Yoshishige Saito, Sadamasa Motonaga, Soshichi Takama, Kazuo Shiraga, Shi kuno, Tazuko Tanaka, Taro Okamoto, Minoru Kawabata, Josaku Maeda and Hisashi Indo
Critique: Takashi Yamamoto
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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