The debut UK solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoko Matsumoto presents a series of paintings and works on paper from the mid-1980s to the present day, introducing the artist’s expressive and disciplined abstraction.
This exhibition is organised in collaboration with Hino Gallery.
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.
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.
