Yukihisa ISOBE
Isobe was born 1936 in Tokyo and joined Q Ei’s Demokrato Art Association already during his high school days. He worked with lithographs early on. In 1962, Isobe participated in the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition with relief works of connected “Wappen” (germ. emblem, heraldic plates). He was awarded at the 1963 Japan International Art Exhibition. In 1966, he moved to the United States where his primary interest shifted towards architecture and city planning. In the following years, Isobe engaged in eco-planning projects in the US as well as in Japan. The Meguro Museum of Art held a retrospective in 1991. More recently, Isobe has returned to working as an artist.

While the fervently Wappen-producing Isobe in his early days was enmeshed in a circle of artists such as Masuo Ikeda, Ay-O, Q Ei and other young avantgardists, and in a way contributed to a budding Japanese variant of Pop-art, he had since the 1970s completely turned his back on art. This was around the time when I made my first steps in the art world, and Isobe seemed like a legend to me. The man had disappeared but there were all these works. And they, for sure, did not start to look old even half a century later.


"Wappen・Work 63-85"
1964
Mixed media
65.2x53.0x7.0cm
Signed


"Glass drawing"
1957
Glass drawing
21.3x30.7cm
Signed


"Work"
1957
Oil
60.5×72.5cm
Signed


"Work '63-13"
1963
Emboss relief
75.0×56.0cm
Ed. 1/10
Signed


"Wappen (1)"
Mixed media
52.0×40.5cm


"Wappen (2)"
Mixed media
53.5×40.5cm


"Wappen (3)"
1964
Emboss
46.1×31.8cm
Ed. 1/20
Signed


"Wappen (6)"
Relief on wood panel
40.5×31.5cm


"Wappen (4)"
1965
Color lithograph
Image size: 45.2×30.2cm
Sheet size: 56.0×37.8cm
Ed. 50
Signed


"Wappen (5)"
1965
Color lithograph
Image size: 40.7×27.2cm
Sheet size：49.5×38.2cm
Ed. 50
Signed


"Wappen (7)"
1963
Mixed media
Image size: 17.5x17.5cm
Frame size: 30.0x30.0cm


"WORK '65-50-E"
1965
Mixed media (colors on tansu furniture)
42.0x97.0x100.0cm
Signed


"Work"
1956
Watercolors, pen
Image size: 71.0x54.0cm
Frame size: 90.0x70.5cm
Signed


"Interior"
1956
Lithograph
Image size: 41.5x57.2cm
Sheet size: 54.3x68.6cm
Signed


"Marin Tower"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 45.2x27.6cm
Sheet size: 55.7x43.3cm
Ed. 70
Signed


"SPECIFICATIONS COORDINATE SYSTEM AND MEMBRANE STRESSES FOR A SPHERICAL ＆ CYLINDRICAL SHELL"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 53.8x80.8cm
Ed. 50
Signed


"SPECICATION AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ART FESTIVAL"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 53.0x80.5cm
Ed. 50
Signed


"SPECIFICATION　AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR WESTERN AIR STRUCTURE"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 53.7x80.7cm
Ed. 50
Signed on a plate


"PARACHUTE CANOPY PROJECT THE DELTA II PARAWING"
1970
Silkscreen
Image size: 53.5x80.3cm
Ed. 50
Signed on plate


"Scene With a Tree"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 45.0x68.5cm
Sheet size: 55.8x78.5cm
Ed. 100
Signed


"HANGING STRUCTURE PLAN"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 53.5x80.8cm
Sheet size: ：58.3×85.3cm
Ed. 35
Signed


"HANGING STRUCTURE PLAN" (Section Paper)
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 53.0x81.0cm
Sheet size: 56.0x83.5cm
Ed. 10
Signed


"Hot-Air Balloon"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 68.0x35.0cm
Sheet size: 86.0x53.3cm
Ed. 100
Signed


"Geodesic Dome"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 71.5x54.3cm
Sheet size: 82.5x62.5cm
Ed. 110
Signed


"Flood"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 52.0x70.0cm
Sheet size: 58.5x78.5cm
Ed. 190
Signed


"Aerial Photograph"
1968
Silkscreen
Image size: 70.5x22.8cm
Sheet size: 86.0x50.5cm
Ed. 100
Signed


First Back Next Last




Gallery TOKI NO WASUREMONO
Aoyama-Cube 101, 3-3-3, Minami-Aoyama,
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062 Japan
Tel +81-3-3470-2631 Fax +81-3-3401-1604
E-mail: info@tokinowasuremono.com
http://www.tokinowasuremono.com/

Open Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-19:00
Closed on Sundays, Mondays, National Holidays
Copyright © 2016 TOKI NO WASUREMONO / WATANUKI Inc.
All rights reserved.