The Abstract, Single-Stroke Paintings of Daigoro Yonekura www.spoon-tamago.com

Daigoro Yonekura is a Japanese artist who creates abstract paintings that resemble billowing plumes of smoke or ink.
In fact, Yonekura’s paintings are, in his own words, an exercise in returning to painting’s most primitive roots: the mixing of two colors.
The artist begins by coating wooden panels with car paint and polishing it down to a super-smooth surface.
Then, using a blotch of water-based paint and working with a plastic squeegee, spreads the paint across the surface in a single stroke of action.
Yonekura’s solo exhibition, “more than painting, less than painting, or anything else,” is on view at hpgrp gallery in Tokyo from Feb 8 – Mar 7, 2020.