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Shizuko Yoshikawa “Where is my Island”
Axis Gallery
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Shizuko Yoshikawa
Shizuko Yoshikawa (born in 1934) left Japan in 1961 and moved to Zurich, Switzerland and worked as a designer for Josef Müller-Brockmann, a pioneer of Swiss graphic design whom she married in 1967. Since then she has played an integral role in Swiss design and art. This exhibition showcases the rational and systematic concepts in her work while also highlighting their more poetic and Japanese notes. 25 works including posters designed by Yoshikawa and Müller-Brockmann along with the film “Shizuko Yoshikawa” commissioned by Swiss Government are exhibited. Yoshikawa has been an influential figure in the Swiss concrete art movement led by Max Bill. The lightness and humanity of her art contradict the pure coldness of technology in the rational and mathematical order of the current digital age.
[Gallery Talks]
Gabrielle Schaad, art critic and author of “Shizuko Yoshikawa: Transformation – Looking back on 50 years of Concrete (Art) Practice ”
Date and Time: 5/19 (Saturday) 15:00–16:00
Shizuko Yoshikawa, artist
“Where is my Island?”
Date and Time: 5/20 (Sunday) 15:00–16:00
Lars Müller, publisher of “Shizuko Yoshikawa - Rational Concepts in Design and Art”
Date and Time: 5/26 (Saturday) 18:00–19:00
[Gallery Talks]
Gabrielle Schaad, art critic and author of “Shizuko Yoshikawa: Transformation – Looking back on 50 years of Concrete (Art) Practice ”
Date and Time: 5/19 (Saturday) 15:00–16:00
Shizuko Yoshikawa, artist
“Where is my Island?”
Date and Time: 5/20 (Sunday) 15:00–16:00
Lars Müller, publisher of “Shizuko Yoshikawa - Rational Concepts in Design and Art”
Date and Time: 5/26 (Saturday) 18:00–19:00
Schedule | May 17 (Thu) 2018-May 27 (Sun) 2018 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception May 17 (Thu) 2018 18:00 - 21:00 | ||
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Venue | Axis Gallery https://center.axisinc.co.jp/floorguide/axisgallery/  | ||
| Location | 4F Axis Bldg., 5-17-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 3 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku line. | ||
| Phone | 03-5575-8655 | ||
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