YUKO NASAKA (JAPAN, B. 1938)

Japan in the 60s was becoming ever more industrialized. Yuko Nasaka, member of Gutai art movement, experimented with the use of new industrial materials in painting; in her work, sometimes resembling relief sculpture, she carved circles like the grooves of vinyl LP recordings, then coated them with enamels from a paint gun for greater texture and brilliance. Given that her family operated a factory, her feeling for the round dials of measuring devices seems to have become unconsciously bound up with the sculpted shapes in her works.