Beyond Matter Jeffrey Bernard and Sanyu have consistently stimulated

and Sanyu have consistently stimulated my love for painting and also helped me to resolve many problems in my own work

His wide-ranging oeuvre embodies the intersection of pop culture

and between his optimistic magnanimity as an artist and his pessimistic perspective on postwar Japan

With original works and studies for major paintings and sculptures of the era

It features 510 illustrations in color and 365 in black-and-white

Beyond Matter Jeffrey Bernard and Sanyu have consistently stimulatedThis book was published on the occasion of Beyond Matter, an exhibition of sewn and painted fabric works by Tsuyoshi Maekawa at Gagosian, San Francisco. A member of the postwar Japanese avant garde collective Gutai Art Association, Maekawa created tactile abstract surfaces with burlap and oil paint. Following the groups dissolution, he continued sewing burlap into intricate waveforms, but instead of focusing on the performative radicality that