The museum is honored to present the "White: Osaka Project," a work conceived by Kuwayama Tadaaki specifically for the National Museum of Art, Osaka.

After relocating to the U.S. in 1958, Kuwayama, who has been based in New York ever since, has consistently explored radical forms of contemporary artistic expression. In his early work, characterized by flat, monochromatic fields of color, Kuwayama fused inorganic materiality with the presence of a solid entity to transcend existing notions of painting.

The "White: Osaka Project" can be seen as an extension of the project, but in as much as Kuwayama makes use of a single color, and paper and wood rather than the metallic materials that have been a mark of his other recent installations, the work stands as a significant departure. It is our hope that you will be able to experience this mysterious place, realized by adapting the museum space to the artist's work with a previously unseen sense of boldness.