Work

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.