Yasushi Yamabe 青天笑風図 - Blue Sky & Laughing Wind (Seiten-syōfū-zu), 2018 acrylic on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm
Yasushi Yamabe, b. 1958, lives in Kyoto Japan. Yamabe graduated in 1980 from the Graduate School of Kyoto City University of Arts. He attracted the attention as the representative artist of "Kansai New Wave", a movement similar to post-modernism that consists of new generation in the Japanese Kansai area. Recent solo exhibitions include Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan, 2019, LADS Gallery Osaka Japan, 2020, Yasushi Yamabe - Metamorphosis of Painting, Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Okayama, Japan, 2008. Recent group exhibitions include The Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition, 250 Years of Kyoto Art Masterpieces, From Edo to Today, 2020, and Wabi Sabi Shima, Thalie Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium, 2015.