Yukihisa Isobe: Museum of Contemporary Art.

"Landscape--Yukihisa Isobe, Artist-Ecological Planner," a retrospective curated by Naoko Seki, provided an excellent overview of the career of a genuine avant-gardist whose work has remained largely unknown to the Japanese public. Born in Tokyo in 1935, Isobe began in the mid-'50s as a post-Informel abstract painter who invented a unique method of overlaying wooden board with emblemlike patterns made of cardboard and plaster. A trip to New York in 1965 changed the course of his career, as he was exposed to the holistic vision and innovative flexibility of Buckminster Fuller's architecture and design. Isobe stayed on in the US and studied with the ecologically minded landscape …