Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present “Earth. Family”,  by Japanese artist Go Yayanagi. The artist’s second solo exhibition in Hong Kong brings together paintings, screenprints, sculptures and mixed-media works from Yayanagi’s archive, and reveals the accumulation of Yayanagi’s voyages as well as the persistence of his practice.

For nearly seven decades, the Hokkaido-born artist Go Yayanagi has been manifesting his appreciation for the earth and all organisms through vivid canvasses of abundant exoticism. As the son of a rancher, Yayanagi grew up surrounded by horses. His quotidian interaction with animals and nature influenced Yayanagi’s future travels and artistic pursuit. After graduating from Obihiro Agricultural High School, Yayanagi briefly entered Hoshi Pharmaceutical College in Tokyo, only to leave college midway and become an autodidact painter at the US Army base in Yokohama. In 1957, Yayanagi embarked on a two-year journey through the Southern Hemisphere in Brazil, Africa and other places in Asia.

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