Yu Nishimura: Towards a Sea

Contributions by Ryoko Sekiguchi, Estelle Zhong Mengual, and Elsa Coustou 
 
Published to coincide with Yu Nishimura’s exhibition Towards a Sea at Lafayette Anticipations, this monograph explores the sensitive world of the artist’s paintings.

Towards a Sea highlights the artist’s explorations of the landscape—a space inhabited by presences and often bordered by the sea. Whether viewed from a train window or hidden by trees or houses, the sea has been a constant presence in Nishimura’s life since his childhood. Conceived as a meditative stroll along the seashore, brings together a body of work comprising fifty artworks, ranging from drawings to large-scale paintings, created over the last ten years. In his works, as in our memory, the imaginary merges with reality in enigmatic representations in which the locations permeate and haunt the figures.

The book also includes photographs and personal documents, as well as previously unpublished contributions by Ryoko Sekiguchi, Estelle Zhong Mengual, and Elsa Coustou, the exhibition’s curator.