Fauna and Flora

Yukihisa Isobe is a Japanese contemporary artist born in 1935 in Tokyo. He graduated from Oil Painting Course of Department of Painting of Tokyo University of the Arts in 1959. His relief with repeated emblems exhibited in the 14th Yomiuri Independent (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) in 1962 received the wide attention. Isobe’s work was exhibited in The New Japanese Paintings and Sculpture (MoMA) in 1966. Subsequently Isobe moved to New York and then studied ecological planning at the Graduate School of University of Pennsylvania. After returning to Japan in 1974, he spent his time for the environment assessment studies. From 1998 to 2001, he produced works in Paris. Isobe, who has been working in Japan for large-scale projects on the subject of river in recent years, continues to act energetically as a pioneer of environmental art.

Fauna and flora in the title are environmental terminology. Fauna refers to all the animals living in a particular area and flora refers to all the plants growing in a particular place. Information that constitutes the natural environment is converted to colors and shapes, generating abstract images on the semicircle support.