Yasuo YOSHIKAWA吉川 恭生


Okinawa Mon Amour

Okinawa Mon Amour
2021
Installation
Naha Shimin Gallery
Naha, Okinawa, Japan

Dante's Chair

2019
Installation
Media Shop
Kyoto, Japan

An interpretation of Dante Alighieri’s long poem “The New Life”

No.9

2015
Stone tablets, rubbings
MEDIA SHOP
Kyoto, Japan

No.9 Press Release

La Barca della Libertà

2012
Marble
Galerie Apotheke
Kyoto, Japan

Hajikami Kesennuma, Miyagi
29.3.2013

Utatsu Minamisanriku, Motoyoshi, Miyagi
29.3.2013

Platonic Roaming

Girovaganza Platonica (Platonic Roaming) (stone, aluminum, stainless steel)
Castle of Agliè, Italy
2008

Girovaganza Platonica (Platonic Roaming) (stone, aluminum, stainless steel)
Castle of Agliè, Italy
2008
Installation made for the 2008 International Sculpture Biennale Agliè held under the topic ‘Sculpture Nature/Orient Occident.' First part of the ongoing project Girovaganza Platonica.

Memory and Record

Haunting Memories of a Wartime Hospital
1997
Taniguchi Clinic (former home and clinic of a Japanese wartime doctor)
Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

Memory and Record

Offering: “Setting the Boundary”
1997
Stone, iron plate, map of Asia, toy train, chalk
1st floor (kitchen)

Offering: “The Maid’s Room”
1997
Pin hole camera, paper screen
2nd floor (upstairs room formerly used by domestic helper)

Offering: "Contamination"

1995
Plaster boards, red wine
Exposition “Portes Ouvertes au Japon”
Bastille, France

This artwork was realized during the France-Japan Contemporary Art Exchange between Le Génie de la Bastille (Bastille Artists Group) and Art Project Z&A (Tokyo/Kyoto Artists Group founded and presided by Y.Y.).

Part I : Portes Ouvertes Au Japon
1995 : 30 ateliers, Bastille, Paris, France

Part II: Without Identity, Without Frontier
1996 : Rissei Former Elementary School, Kyoto, Japan

Message from Paris

(after the start of the 1995-96 nuclear test series in the South Pacific by France)
1995
Print (stone rubbing)
Japanese washi paper, red ink

Message de Paris : 
Je suis le fils de l’agresseur
et je suis le fils de la victime.
Nous,
ces fils qui portons cette responsabilité,
joignons les mains et vivons avec le but
que cette même faute ne soit plus répétée.

English Translation :
Message from Paris:
I am both,
The son of the aggressor
And the son of the victim.
Let us,
The generation which carries this responsibility,
Join hands and live with the aim
Of never making the same mistake again.

Yasuo Yoshikawa, September 1995

Message de Paris

Offering by those who do not have a religion

1994
Installation inside an old storehouse on two floors
Yoka-cho, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

On the series "Offerings"

1st Floor: Offering: “Blood and Freedom”
Iron, aluminium, steel, slide projector

2nd Floor: Offering: “Dynamite”
Dynamite containers

Brick Offering

1993
Bricks
Gallery Imagine
Otsu, Japan

Seize the Day

1991
Wood, stone, bronze
Gallery Diecidue Arte
Via Bramante, Milano, Italy

Over the Rainbow

1989
Wood
Porte Galerie Avion
Rue Ferrari, Marseille, France

The Last Supper

1989
Wood
Galerie 16
Kyoto, Japan


天地玄黄 Tenchigenko (Black Heaven, Yellow Hell)
1983
Mixed Media
Musée de l'Athénée
Geneva, Switzerland

ノスタルジー Nostalgia
1984
Stone, stainless cables
Open Air Sculpture Exhibition
Lancy, Geneva, Switzerland

雨上がり After the Rain
1987
Stone, wood
Kyoto, Japan

供物 Flower Offering
1993
Bricks, flowers
Gallery Imagine
Otsu, Japan

泣く女 Woman Crying
Stone
1999
Adogawa, Japan

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