Wakayama, Japan.- The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama is proud to present “Yoshihara Hideo: A Retrospective”, on view at the museum from November 19th through January 15th 2012. This exhibition marks the first retrospective show of the artists work since his death in 2007. In addition to works from the museum’s own colleection, artifacts from the artist’s studio will be presented. Yoshihara was born at Hiroshima in 1931, and began to take a keen interest in art in his high school days at Tennoji High School, Osaka. Although he took part in the founding of Gutai, whose leader Yoshihara Jiro was one of his distant relatives, soon he disaffiliated himself and joined in the Demokrato Artist Association, where he took significantly inspiration from Izumi Shigeru, the leader of Demokrato in Kansai district and began print making.