Yutaka Sone: Amusement Romana

The gallery is pleased to present the work of Japanese Los Angeles-based artist Yutaka Sone. This will be the artist's second solo exhibition at David Zwirner. Sone will participate in this year's Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He represented Japan at last year's La Biennale di Venezia, and also had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Jungle Island. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, most recently at the 25th Biennial de Sao Paulo in Brazil, and at the 13th Biennale of Sydney in Australia.

Yutaka Sone works in a variety of media, with an emphasis on sculpture. His work is project-oriented, rooted in performance, and defies easy categorization. Born and raised in Japan, the artist does not exploit his heritage and his work is hard to locate culturally. Sone's extensive travels in the 90's and his tendency to establish connections between extremely diverse groups and cultures have left a lasting impression on his creative output. In 2000, Sone moved to Los Angeles. The landscape of California and his new experiences there have certainly influenced his work, most notably his series of four marble Highway Junctions exhibited at MOCA last year.

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