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Lot Essay
Katsutoshi Yuasa’s artworks meticulously combine his own digital photographs with the traditional Japanese technique of woodcutting. By fusing these two processes – the camera’s ‘snapshot’ and the woodcut’s lengthy reinterpretation of the same image –Yuasa creates haunting meditations on the natural world, which capture the atmospheric and emotional character of his subjects.
Yuasa’s pieces take weeks to complete, as he painstakingly translates details of light and shadow onto plywood ready for printing. The finished products exist both as objects, and as images in their own right, removed from the original scenes that inspired them, but still communicating their abstract appeal to the artist.
Katsutoshi Yuasa (born Tokyo, 1978) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. He studied a BA Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (1998-2002) and an MA Fine Art, Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London (2003-2005). He was awarded the Northern Print Award in 2011.
Yuasa’s pieces take weeks to complete, as he painstakingly translates details of light and shadow onto plywood ready for printing. The finished products exist both as objects, and as images in their own right, removed from the original scenes that inspired them, but still communicating their abstract appeal to the artist.
Katsutoshi Yuasa (born Tokyo, 1978) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. He studied a BA Fine Art, Painting and Printmaking at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (1998-2002) and an MA Fine Art, Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London (2003-2005). He was awarded the Northern Print Award in 2011.