YUKO NASAKA
Yuko Nasaka was one of the few female members of the Gutai Art Association. She joined in 1963 and became a key member of the group’s second-generation activities.
Nasaka’s work from this period is inventive, experimental, and highly original. She displays a masterful use of technology and cutting-edge industrial materials—two hallmarks of Gutai—through her use of brightly hued car lacquer. Her large, grid-like relief works are a modular series of square wooden panels, which she coated with a thin layer of glue, plaster and clay, and then placed individually on a homemade mechanical turntable. As the panel rotated, she used a palette knife to carve patterns into the material, a gesture she compared to working on a potter’s wheel.
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