Yasushi Yamabe 青天笑風図 - Blue Sky & Laughing Wind (Seiten-syōfū-zu), 2018 acrylic on canvas, 53 x 45.5 cm
“I express the horizon are an interactive process with viewers; a vessel conjuring a new interpretation of the world.”
Born in Okayama and living in Kyoto, Japanese artist Yasushi Yamabe (b. 1958) creates energetic paintings of his surrounding landscape. Yamabe depicts movement through linear mark-making, beyond the confrontation; Space and time appear and disappear. The perspectives creating visual fluidity as well as a sense of space and passing time. Yamabe says, “I express the horizon are an interactive process with viewers; a vessel conjuring a new interpretation of the world.”