The first large-scale solo exhibition of Japanese artist Izumi Kato is going on at the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing, featuring more than 50 works from the past decade, including "Untitled," a brand new fabric series specially tailored for the exhibition, and on-site creations in the garden of the museum.

Izumi Kato's works are of distinctive features with a pervasive outline that is sometimes a combination of female and male characters with slim and extended legs and arms in a quirky gesture.

They commingled plant properties which may suggest an origin from the spiritual world with a primitive power rooted in the earth.

By fusing the concept of "tree of life" with the ideological system in Japan and the theory of biological evolution in the west, the artist is trying to voice the harmonious relationship of all creatures.

"Izumi Kato was born and brought up in coastal Shimane in southwestern Japan. It is one of the prominent places for ancient Japanese culture. He grew up surrounded by profuse worship of elves. As a primitive religion in Japan, Shintoism falls under pan-spirit polytheism that holds all animals and plants in nature as divines. The exhibition is to communicate with gods and spirits that had spread in Shimane," said curator Yan Shijie.

According to the curator, Izumi Kato has been hammering at the derivative language of art. His paintings, collages, sculptures and fabrics are gradually incorporated into his sphere of creation.

The display will last till mid-October.