Fuyuko Matsui (http://matsuifuyuko.com/) is known in her country as one of the most remarkable of her generation. Her work has been  notably exhibited in at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), (http://searchi.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/fa20060309a1.html) and at the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2006, and at the Mori Art Museum making her an emblematic figure of « néo- nihon-ga » movement ( « new japanese style » of traditional japanese art ) in 2009.

For DA-END, this first exhibition - in collaboration with Naruyama gallery of Tokyo - is an opportunity to introduce  the western public to not only a major artist but also impressed part of the history of contemporary japanese art.

Matsui delivers seven new paintings on silk as well as series of drawings.  Her mastered technique of the traditional japanese painting, combining classic and contemporary elements/perceptions, leads the spectator into a dream-like disturbing world, between delicate nature and corporal punishment. No one will walk away unhurt !