Yoshinaga, Yutaka
Japanese, born 1948
Post Mono-ha respects “thingness,” while also adds the trace of the artist’s hand. Yoshinaga does not think about beauty: what concerns him is “the life of the material.” He then works on one square at a time. Like Japanese fusuma, or sliding doors, built in light wood-grids covered with paper and repaired as needed one square at a time, there are “repairs” and “handling marks” evident in his prints.
Yoshinaga thinks of “color as form” and cherishes textures and layers of pigments and stresses that his “handmade” works are about “the life of the materials” and “his relationship to those materials and to time.” It is, he says, “the accumulation of touch” and “the different feeling to things done at different times” that interests him.
American, Japanese descent, active in Hawaii, born 1947
Italian, about 1470/1482–1527/1534