Whitestone Gallery is pleased to announce Traces, a duo exhibition bringing together the work of Yukihisa Isobe (b. 1935, Tokyo) and the late Tetsuo Mizù (1944–2025, Tokyo). This marks the first occasion on which these two bodies of work have been placed in direct conversation, and it carries particular resonance following Mizù's passing in January 2025.

Drawing on six decades of combined artistic production, the exhibition stages a dialogue between two practices united by a shared impulse: the desire to mark what is at risk of disappearing. Isobe, a pivotal figure in Japan's postwar avant-garde, first gained recognition for his Wappen series (1961-65): repeated heraldic symbols rendered in stone dust and embossed fresco textures. He subsequently spent two decades as a practising ecological planner before returning to art through monumental land-art installations that render invisible environmental histories visible. Mizù, celebrated across Europe and Asia for his luminous paintings derived from international maritime signal flags, encoded personal memory and longing within geometric abstraction. Though their methods diverge—one forensic, the other lyric—both artists devoted their careers to the act of tracing: inscribing presence where absence threatens.

Opening Reception: 2026.09.05 (Sat) 3 - 6 pm

Gallery address: 7/F, M Place, 54 Wong Chuk Hang Road