Kenji Inumaki Exhibition

Gallery Yamaki Fine Art

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In the 1970s, the Osaka-born artist Kenji Inumaki began creating eye-deceiving sculptures with thread, in which pieces of glass seemed to stand diagonally, and structures made of multiple series of cubes tied simply with wire. Such works have been acclaimed as a movement that emerged in conjunction with Mono-ha. Inumaki has participated in numerous important exhibitions including “The 10th Japanese International Art Exhibition: Between Man and Matter” (1970) and “The 8th Paris Youth Biennale” (1973). The practice of “placing a primary structure in space” has become the foundation of his creations. Since the mid-1970s, he has consistently created works resulting from the repetition of simple tasks, such as faintly coloring in graph paper grids with colored pencils, drawing with sumi ink lines from a sumitsubo (sumi inkpot), or applying thick layers of white paint, as seen in “White Works Series - Sort of Primitive Idealistic Space.” For its second exhibition of the artist’s work, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art presents around 10 works, mainly Inumaki’s recent colored pencil on graphite paper series.