"Sadamasa Motonaga & Etsuko Nakatsuji – Resonating Forms" Held at Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery, Osaka: Two Independent Yet Resonating Artistic Worlds
An exhibition of Sadamasa Motonaga and Etsuko Nakatsuji runs from November 17 to December 18 at Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery in Osaka, showcasing their resonating artistic worlds.Summary
The exhibition "Sadamasa Motonaga & Etsuko Nakatsuji – Resonating Forms" will be held from November 17 to December 18 at Yoshiaki Inoue Gallery in Osaka. Motonaga, a leading internationally active member of the Gutai Art Association, and Nakatsuji, who pursued her own practice while working as a graphic designer, met around 1957 and married in 1960, sharing their life and creative environment for over half a century. Centered on Nakatsuji's installation "POCO・PIN"—which sways and rotates with air currents and viewer movement—the show features works from the 1970s to 1990s. The piece emerged from Nakatsuji's attempt to transform a limited living space into a new expressive site. Nakatsuji developed her "human forms" into paintings, while Motonaga adopted airbrushes and other new tools, creating worlds of vivid color and organic shapes. Rather than tracing mutual influence, the exhibition highlights the relationship nurtured through daily life, conversation, and time spent viewing each other's work, inviting visitors to experience the resonance of their independent artistic worlds.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)