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Posted On: October 14th 2026, 09:35 pm
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Join us at Maus Contemporary this Friday, Oct. 16 (6-8pm) for the opening of YOSHISHIGE FURUKAWA: MATERIAL.
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Yoshishige Furukawa (1921-2008) spent his career testing the limits of painting through a dedicated engagement with American art trends and unconventional materials. Maus Contemporary is thrilled to present works from Furukawa’s Black Rubber Sheet series, a body of work which began and evolved through the 1970s, alongside a selection of 1970s works informing said series or following it.
The selection of works show an important shift in Furukawa’s practice - from a traditional, paint-based, to a process-based, minimalist approach, which ultimately culminated in the artist’s important and rare Black Rubber Sheets series from 1975 and 1976. The non-color of black and the solid sense of the material of rubber reflected a rather reticent and ascetic impression of 1970’s art. Despite this, the various variations that were woven by the black geometric forms in triangles, squares and polygons continued to evoke dynamic senses of motion and expression that were alike in appearances but different in nature from the regularly repetitive element inherent to Minimalism.
#MausContemporary #YoshishigeFurukawa @mauscontemporary #JapaneseArtist #NewYork1970s #MinimalistArt
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Yoshishige Furukawa (1921-2008) spent his career testing the limits of painting through a dedicated engagement with American art trends and unconventional materials. Maus Contemporary is thrilled to present works from Furukawa’s Black Rubber Sheet series, a body of work which began and evolved through the 1970s, alongside a selection of 1970s works informing said series or following it.
The selection of works show an important shift in Furukawa’s practice - from a traditional, paint-based, to a process-based, minimalist approach, which ultimately culminated in the artist’s important and rare Black Rubber Sheets series from 1975 and 1976. The non-color of black and the solid sense of the material of rubber reflected a rather reticent and ascetic impression of 1970’s art. Despite this, the various variations that were woven by the black geometric forms in triangles, squares and polygons continued to evoke dynamic senses of motion and expression that were alike in appearances but different in nature from the regularly repetitive element inherent to Minimalism.
#MausContemporary #YoshishigeFurukawa @mauscontemporary #JapaneseArtist #NewYork1970s #MinimalistArt
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