COLLECTIONS
The Ashiya City Museum of Art & History (Hyogo, japan), Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Hyogo), Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts (Osaka, Japan), The Miyagi Museum of Art (Miyagi, Japan), Guggenheim Museum (New York), etc.
YUKO NASAKA
YUKO NASAKA
Yuko Nasaka, born in Osaka, Japan, became a member of the Gutai art group in the early 1960s, establishing herself as one of the second-generation artists of the group. In 1964, Nasaka held her first solo exhibition at the Gutai Pinacotheca, featuring a captivating space filled with concentric circles. The exhibition garnered attention from visitors and prominent international figures, including Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Merce Cunningham.
Nasaka drew inspiration for her use of the circle as a motif in her work from her family's ownership of a factory that housed various industrial tools, including circular meters commonly used in ships. From the golden days of the GUTAI group in the 1960s to the present, Nasaka has been consistently making images of concentric circles painted in relief. Her process begins by producing motifs of concentric circles using a rotating plate and resin. These individual motifs are then assembled to construct monumental artworks that span almost the entire surface of a wall. Through her emphasis on the repetition and accumulation of the same motifs, Nasaka skilfully conveys a sense of infinite space, evoking a feeling of endlessly expanding pictorial space for the viewers. She would use drills, compressors and industrial materials like resin and lacquer to produce her bold works.
ARTWORKS
ARTICLES
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS
IMAGES
∞-6PIECES, 1965, Resin and lacquer on board, 104.5 x 69.3cm
Infinity, 1965, Resin, lacquer on board, 45.0 x 45.0cm
Work NY-60, 1967, Ressin, lacquer on board, 35.0 x 35.0cm
Work 1968, 1968, resin, lacquer on board, 43.5 x 43.5cm
Work, 1968, Resin, lacquer, fabric on board 40.0 x 40.0cm
Work, 1978, Acrylic on board, 20.5 x 20.5cm
Untitled(Fabric, print), 2013, Print on fabric, 168.0 x 139.0cm
BIOGRAPHY
- 1938
- Born in Osaka Japan
- 1962
- Awarded Mayor`s Prize in 15th Ashiya-City Exhibition Won 47th Nika Exhibition Participated 5th Contemporary Art exhibition Studies under Jiro yoshihara
- 1963
- Joined to Gutai Group
- 1964
- First Solo exhibition at Gutai Pinacoteca
- 1965
- Received an honorable mention in 9th Shell Exhibition Exhibition in Paris (Stadler Gallery/Paris)
- 1966
- Exhibition in Netherland /2nd Lausanne International Exhibition
- 1967
- Participated 4th Exhibition of young artists
- 1970
- Presented a field sculpture work at Osaka Expo Museum
- 1979
- Exhibition of Jiro Yoshihara and later Gutai (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
- 1985
- Exhibition of Jiro Yoshihara and `Gutai`1954-1972 (Ashiya-Citizen Center)
- 1987
- Received a second prize of IBM Picture and illustration competition
- 1988
- 10th Enba Prize Exhibition
- 1989
- Women`s 89 (Osaka Contemporary Art Center)
- 1990
- Exhibited Osaka Triennale`90 1st International Contemporary Creator Contest
- 1991
- Women`s 91 (Osaka Contemporary Art Center)
- 1992
- Gutai Exhibition (The Miyagi Museum of Art)
- 1993
- Exhibition Osaka Triennale`93 4th International Contemporary Gutai Exhibition II 1959 – 1965 (Ashiya City Museum of Art and History) Gutai Exhibition III 1965 – 1972 (Ashiya City Museum of Art and History)
- 2004
- 50 Anniversary `Gutai` Retrospective (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)
- 2005
- Avant-Garde Women 1950- 1975 (Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art)
- 2008
- Exhibition: Osaka for Female Artists/ 20 Century Beijinga and Avant- Garde (Osaka City Modern Museum)
- 2012
- GUTAI: The Spirit of an Era (The National Art Center/Tokyo)
- 2013
- Gutai: Splendid Playground (Guggenheim Museum/ New York)
- 2014
- Solo Exhibition at Whitestone Gallery
- 2015
- Yuko Nasaka, Axel Vervoodt Gallery, Wijnegem - Antwerp
- 2017
- Meditative Minimalism: Confusion and Order, SAKURADO FINE ARTS, Tokyo