Isamu WAKABAYASHI – Recollections –

KENJI TAKI GALLERY

Isamu Wakabayashi
Recollections
January 27 (Fri) – March 10 (Sat), 2012
Nagoya

Untitled – 1991 VII, 1991
acrylic, sulphur, charcoal, linen and wood
28 x 60 x 28 cm

Exhibition

Sculptures Memory of Cotton,
1984 Everest Hotel VIII, 1982/1991
Sunrise, Sunset (4 Lines), 1977-79, among others

Unpublished drawings from 1998 to 2000

Drawing: Vibration Scale as a Realistic Landscape, 2002

Isamu Wakabayashi (1936–2003): He consistently garnered attention as a leading sculptor representing Japanese contemporary art. His notable achievements include a solo exhibition at the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art in 1973, participation in the Venice Biennale in 1980 and 1986, and major solo exhibitions at both the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, in 1987. In 2002, the year before his passing, a large-scale solo exhibition featuring new works was held at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.

At Kenji Taki Gallery, his solo exhibitions include: The Dog Revolves (Nagoya, 1999), Ally of Sulfur (Nagoya, 2000), Bark and Vacant Lot (Tokyo, 2001), Isamu Wakabayashi: New Works (Nagoya, 2002), and Copper / Arc (Tokyo, 2003).

Sunrise, Sunset (Four Lines), 1977-79
wood, iron, white
12.5 x 70 x 69.5 cm

Foreground: Possession, Atmosphere, Vibration – Memory of Cotton, 1984
Wood, lead, cotton seeds
65.5 x 52 x 184 cm

Everest Hotel VII 1982/1991
wood, sulphur, acrylic, plaster, linen
91 x 41.5 x 41 cm

A Dog Inside IV, 1968 steel H.33 x 37 x 26 cm

Foreground: Floral Pattern Drawing I, II, III, IV, 2002
Paper, pencil, colored pencil
51.5 x 36.2 cm each

Untitled -1991 VI , 1991
wood, sulphur, acrylic, charcoal, linen
24.5 x 45 x 54.5 cm

Untitled -1991 VII, 1991
wood, sulphur, acrylic, charcoal, linen
28 x 60 x 28 cm

right : untitled, 1993.1.15 pencil on paper 36 x 25.7 cm (IW21)
left : untitled, 19931.14 pencil on paper 36 x 25.7 cm (IW8)

Untitled Drawings
（from right） : 1998.4.16 (IW341) 20.7×11.8cm/ 1999.4.26 (IW272) 20.3×15.6cm / 1999.5.14(1) (IW279) 24.4×21.2cm/ 2000.6.11 (IW243)23.3×13.9cm