Tsuyoshi Maekawa - Maekawa II - Axel Vervoordt 2017
MAEKAWA II is Axel Vervoordt Gallery’s second publication on the Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Maekawa (1936). The 1970s were a difficult period for the former members of the Gutai group to maintain their identities as artists. The sudden death of the group’s leader Jiro Yoshihara in 1972 seems to have caused them a great deal of anxiety about their future. There is something truly amazing about the way in which Maekawa’s art developed during the seventies. With every exhibition, his efforts grew increasingly profound as he freely manipulated burlap and sewed it into complex waveforms, squares and triangles. Having fallen in love with the texture of burlap fabric, Maekawa had been working during the 1970s with sewn burlap as a material, making abstract relief works, many of them dyed with various shades of colour.
Koichi Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Toru Takahashi, Masaru Aguro, Kazuo Akana, Boris Vervoordt
152 pages - EN - 33,5 x 24,5 cm - clothed hardcover - perfect
Koichi Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Toru Takahashi, Masaru Aguro, Kazuo Akana, Boris Vervoordt
152 pages - EN - 33,5 x 24,5 cm - clothed hardcover - perfect