Yamabe Yasushi

Yasushi Yamabe was born in Okayama Prefecture in 1958 and studied Western painting at Kyoto City University of Arts. In the 1980s, he experimented with colorful installations using star shaped panels and painted wood. In the latter half of the 1980s, he worked on large-screen tableaus depicting giant flowers and plants in vivid hues. While attending school, in addition to producing works, he was actively involved in independent exhibition organizations such as “Yes Art”. He has continued producing works from the 1990s up until the present based on the theme of the various styles and painting methods of Eastern and Western art. In recent years, he has depicted a unique drawing-like landscape by combining the spatial expressions of Northern Song landscape paintings with Da Vinci’s sketches. He has exhibited his works at “Art Now” in 1986 and 1990 (Kansai Contemporary Art of the 1980s), as well as “Yasushi Yamabe: Koko Kara Hajimaru Fukeiga [Landscapes Beginning from Here]” (Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art) in 2016, and “Living Landscapes: Gazes of the Past and Present Looking Out at Mount Lushan” (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art) in 2018.