Japon Brut #2
Yumiko Kawaï , Kunizo Matsumoto , Yukio Miyashita , Masaki Mori , Momoko Nakagawa , Koji Nishioka , Yuichi Saito , Hideaki Yoshikawa
Japon Brut #2, on view from March 21 to April 18, 2026, at Christian Berst, Paris, features a collection of works exploring creation through lines. Artists like Hideaki Yoshikawa sculpt clay figures, Yumiko Kawai embroiders concentric circles, and Yukio Miyashita fills pages with foreign words. Kunizo Matsumoto populates his ephemerides with characters, while Yuichi Saito scatters ideograms. Masaki Mori presents serial processions, Momoko Nakagawa modulates color frequencies and scans numbers, and Koji Nishioka translates inner music onto undulating staves.
The exhibition touches upon the paradoxes inherent in art brut, referencing Jean Dubuffet's initial concept of artistic exemption from culture and his later acknowledgment of cultural conditioning. For Western viewers, Japanese art brut often appears singular due to a perceived distance, yet beneath any exoticism lies a universal dimension.