After the exhibition with collage in 1935, Yuki Katsura (1913-1991) had worked for 60 years, and she is a pioneer in Japanese female artists connecting before and after the war. This exhibition is to celebrate 100th anniversary of her birth and the first cover-all solo exhibition in Tokyo. 

With collage made of cork or clothes based on a sense of touch, and detailed sketching using oil pairing, Katsura showed her unique concept for painting and it was received great attention from Shuzou Takiguchi and Tsuguharu Foujita, the great Japanese artists. Also, after the war, she had made humorous works through a view for the society and human and periphrastic expression, which can be interpreted in various ways. Based on traveling and literature, her works carried an attitude to see the avant-garde and daily life, criticism and humor, and Japanese folk culture and Western modern ordinary ones in a different view. As modifying her work after it completed, she suggested rethink matter of course. 

The exhibition will introduce her representative and initial works, and verify a meaning of creation derived from separate way unlike the Wester avant-garde.  

Courtesy of Museum of Conteporary Art Tokyo

*image (left)
Work, 1965
Oil on paper / panel
© Yuki Katsura, Fukuoka Art Museum