Shizuko Yoshikawa 吉川静子

Shizuko Yoshikawa (1934–2019)
S4, 1983
Color serigraphy on Arches paper
Signed, titled, numbered 109/150 and dated in pencil
Sheet size: 75 x 55 cm
Condition: Recto upper edge with adhesive tape residue (and verso), slightly finger-marked at the upper right edge. Sheet minimally browned.

Born and raised in Japan, Yoshikawa initially studied English literature in Tokyo before transferring in 1958 to what is now the University of Tsukuba for a master's degree in architecture and product design. In 1961, she moved to Germany and, as the only woman and one of the few students from Japan, began her studies at the renowned Ulm School of Design. Two years later, she moved to Zurich and worked in the studio of the Swiss designer Josef Müller-Brockmann, whom she married in 1967. From 1970 onward, she pursued her independent artistic career, turning to Concrete Art, whose geometric rigor she enriched with Far Eastern poetry and aesthetics.