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Matsumoto Yoko

MATSUMOTO YOKO

Darkness Against Nature White Cube 28 June–23 August 2024 New York
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Yoko Matsumoto’s second exhibition with the gallery features paintings created by the artist between the 1980s and early 2000s. Producing her abstract, labour-intensive canvases during periods of deep concentration, the artist addresses colour in a processual and meditative manner, elaborately layering hues to create a tracery of nebulous forms and gestures. With an embodied knowledge of her medium, Matsumoto works within the sobering space of painting itself to both mine and liberate the capricious essences of colour and light.

Citing her first visit to New York in 1967, where she became profoundly influenced by the works of American Abstract Expressionists such as Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, this exhibition marks Matsumoto’s return to the city after almost three decades.The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Hino Gallery.

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About the Artist

Committed to the principle of ‘painting with colour and form alone’, the Japanese artist Yoko Matsumoto (b.1936, Tokyo) creates immersive compositions in a reduced palette that articulate the primacy of painterly expression. Produced during periods of deep concentration, her abstract, labour-intensive canvases harness the agency of colour as both a conveyor and collaborator. Over six decades, she has crafted a unique expressive visual language that is informed by lineages of Japanese art and the tenets of Western abstraction.

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About the Gallery

An international art powerhouse, White Cube was established in 1993 in London by art dealer Jay Jopling. In its space on Duke Street, it served as the early exhibition venue for many now internationally acclaimed British artists, including Tracey Emin, Gilbert & George, Rachel Kneebone and Antony Gormley, who still show with the gallery today.

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