Yui Yaegashi. 2024-2009

This is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Tokyo-based painter Yui Yaegashi. A unique reference system provides context and details for nearly 70 works, guiding readers through the book and highlighting the evolution and permanence of motifs. The catalog is enriched with six essays by art critics, gallery owners, collectors, artists, writers, and curators, each of whom focuses on a painting with which they have a close relationship, illuminating the entire oeuvre through specific works. The latter half of the book features full-scale artworks, allowing readers to virtually experience the experience of viewing the artworks and enjoy the detailed viewing. This book was published by Keijiban, a Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture-based publishing house, editions production, and exhibition space for art, in collaboration with MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo) and i8 Gallery (Reykjavik).
 Yui Yaegashi was born in Chiba in 1985 and lives in Tokyo.
 For over 15 years, Yui Yaegashi has devoted herself entirely to exploring the essence of abstract painting: infinite color combinations, the interplay between plane and depth, imagery, and the limits of the canvas. Yet she achieves these grandiose and mystical themes with a serene and detached approach, where modernist exploration meets the material requirements of craft. Based on the structure of fabric, her works simultaneously obey and improvise their established rules of scale, tools, color, and texture. These often result in small, multi-layered oil paintings whose delicate yet sublime presence is undeniable. Creating such visual surprises with such simple and understated brushwork, Yaegashi's position lies somewhere between the work of Anni Albais and Niel Troni.
 Recent solo exhibitions: "View from here, an occurrence", LambdaLambdaLambda, Pristina, 2022; "HINAGA", La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels, 2022; "purple, black, fog", Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, 2022; "Yui Yaegashi", Queer Thoughts, New York, 2021.
 Galleries representing Yui Yaegashi's work include MISAKO & ROSEN (Tokyo), Parrasch Heijnen (Los Angeles), and i8 Gallery (Reykjavik).
 Yui Yaegashi. 2024 - 2009 is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Tokyo-based painter Yui Yaegashi. The book features almost seventy works, shown in context and in detail through an original referencing system, inviting readers to go back and forth across the book, looking at the evolution and permanence of certain motifs. The catalog is punctuated by six texts written by an art critic, a gallery owner, a collector, an artist, a writer and a curator, each focusing on a specific painting with which they have an intimate relationship, illuminating the general work through the particular.
 Yui Yaegashi was born in 1985 in Chiba, Japan. She currently lives in Tokyo.
 For more than fifteen years now, Yui Yaegashi has dedicated herself to examining the core of abstract painting: the infinite chromatic variations, the interplay between flatness and depth, the delineation of an image and the limits of the canvas. But she achieves this ambitious and seemingly mystical agenda in a quiet, non-dramatic way. Here the Modernist quest meets the materialist conditions of craft. Based on the of textiles, her works are composed through a series of predetermined rules in terms of scale, tools, color, and texture, which are transgressed along the way by means of improvisation. This results in mostly small-scale oil paintings of interwoven layers, whose delicate and sovereign presence is undisputable. The capacity to convey so much visual wonder through such concise and humble brushstrokes locates Yaegashi's territory somewhere at the intersection of Anni Albers' and Niele Toroni's works.
 Recent solo shows include View from here, an occurrence, LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina, 2022; HINAGA, La Maison de Rendez-vous, Brussels, 2022; purple, black, fog, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, 2022; Yui Yaegashi, Queer Thoughts, New York, 2021.
 Yui Yaegashi is represented by MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles, and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik.


 Publisher: Keijiban
 Publication year: 2024
 Number of pages: 224
 Size: 220 x 150 mm
 Format: Softcover
 Language: Japanese
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 Condition: New