October Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Kenji Yoshida, comprising a selection of significant works, spanning the decades between the 1960s and 1990s. 
Yoshida is best known for the monumental, almost transcendent works that employ precious metals of gold and silver leaf upon Japanese lacquer and coloured paints on canvas. Highlights include exemplary works on paper from the 60sand 70s, portraying a unique combination of traditional Japanese and European modernist styles. 

Yoshida first studied art under Kiyoshi Hayashi before the outbreak of World War II. Selected for training as a kamikaze pilot, Yoshida was extremely lucky to survive his teens. It was under the weight of many such memories, that Yoshida returned to his art. From that point onwards the majority of Yoshida’s work carried the single, most telling of all titles, Sei-Mei - La Vie - Life.