About the Exhibition

In conjunction with the retrospective of works by YOKOO Tatsuhiko, introduced here are copper engravings by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), by whom Yokoo was influenced. The profound works produced by repeatedly incising and hatching a copperplate, onto which the image has been photoengraved, are brimming with the deep spirituality with which Rouault pursued depths of the human mind. Shown here are Miserere (1922-27, published in 1948), a series of master monochrome copper engravings inspired by the death of Rouault’s father and World War I, and Passion (1936), which depicts the sufferings of Christ.