In the year celebrating his 90th anniversary, which coincides with the 110 years of Japanese immigration in Brazil, expressionist-abstract painter Flavio-Shiró Tanaka is honored with a retrospective that comprises seven decades of his artistic career, from1942 until works conceived in 2018. Flavio-Shiró, is a painter from three different universes: he was born in Japan, grew up in Brazil and for more than six decades he divided his atelier between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Max Perlingeiro comments: "In 2012, I thought about publishing a trilogy that showed the determining contribution of Japanese-Brazilian artists. I discussed the idea with art curator Paulo Herkenhoff, who promptly took on himself the task of penning the article as he had previously done with the books published by Edições Pinakotheke: 'Manabu Mabe, 1924.1997: anos 1950.1960' and 'Tomie Ohtake construtiva.' With this book 'Flavio-Shiró', we conclude the trilogy"--Page 185.