MISAKO & ROSEN is pleased to announce Yokomichi Yonosuke, a one-week, two-person exhibition featuring painter Shimon Minamikawa and author Shuichi Yoshida. The exhibtion will open on Wednesday, September 16 and close on Wednesday, September 23.
The exhibition will include a series of 293 paintings created by Minamikawa in collaboration with Yoshida for the author’s serialized novel Yokomichi Yonosuke printed daily in the Mainichi Shinbun evening edition from April, 2008 through March of 2009. The exhibition represents the culmination of a one year dialogue between painting and literaure.
Yokomichi Yonosuke will be released by Mainichi Shinbun in book format in September 15 2009. For the book release, Yoshida created additional text and Minamikawa, as well, a new painitng which serves as the cover for the publication.