shiraga - SEM
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shiraga - SEM
SHIRAGA KAZUO (1924 - 2008) Gutai’s expansive concept of painting did not necessarily involve paint and a canvas. hoped that the finished painting would display traces of action carried out with speed. In October 1955 at the first Gutai exhibition in Tokyo Shiraga enacted his renowned performance, Challenging Mud. It involved him wrestling with a truckload of clay mixed with cement that had been emptied into the courtyard of the exhibition venue. The performance, which he repeated three times during the course of the exhibition, survives only in the form of photographs and film footage. The 1957 Gutai Art on the Stage Exhibition opened with Shiraga Kazuo’s Ultra Modern Sanbasō, a contemporary take on the Nō theater´s opening number that explored the blurring of the boundaries between painting and theater. Shiraga's work began with a lit stage, empty of everything except for a row of painting poles. The poles fell down one by one, producing a painting moving through time and space and incorporating the sounds of the poles striking the ground. Once the geometric abstraction had become a monochrome, Shiraga emerged onto the stage wearing a long pointy nose and red costume with long reinforced sleeves and a tall pointy hat, which allowed him to become an undulating red line on the stage. After his dance, an army of Gutai members rushed the stage with bows and arrows and completed the painting by shooting the arrows into the stage backdrop. "I ardently look forward to debating whether it is the act of shooting an arrow, or the surface that it pierces that is art.1" It was an actualisation of the exhortation made by the leader of the Gutai group Yoshihara Jiro, to create paintings of a kind that nobody has ever seen before. At the time of the Gutai exhibition Shiraga had already started to paint with his feet. This substitution of the human body for the paintbrush was totally revolutionary. For Shiraga, painting with his feet enabled an unmediated encounter with the material and a direct bodily form of artistic expression. Shiraga was generally considered the most distinguished artist to emerge from the Gutai Art Association, and in his later years, as his reputation grew, he was the subject of various exhibitions both in Japan and in European countries. Subsequently, he began to use his own body as a substitute for a brush, painting directly with his hands, head and feet. His most characteristic technique, first displayed at the second Gutai exhibition in 1956, entailed pouring paint onto a canvas on the floor, and making strokes with his feet while hanging and swinging from ropes suspended from the ceiling. Thus, his work incorporated the choreography and random motions of his body into the design, a fact which gave his work its distinctive visual dynamism and its characteristic bold arcs and slashes of colour. Shiraga commented that he During the Sixties Shiraga occasionally experimented with new techniques and new implements, for instance, painting with wooden boards, and creating a number of fan-shaped objects in paper. Otherwise, however, his technique and style changed little through his 50-year career. In 1971, shortly before Yoshihara's death, he had entered the Buddhist priesthood at the Enryaku Monastery on Mount Hiei, near Kyoto. Under his monk's name, Sodo, he continued to paint until the end of his life. SEM-ART 1 Tiampo, Ming. Gutai: Decentering Modernism. University of 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c Chicago Press. 2011. 1 Biography 1924 1942 - 1948 1948 1948 1952 1955 2008 • • • • • • • Born in Amagasaki, Japan Attended Kyoto Municipal School of Painting, Kyoto, Japan Studied at City Art Center, Osaka, Japan Joined New Creation Art Association, Japan Formed Zero Society with Saburo Murakami and Akira Kanayama Joined Gutai Art Association Died in Amagasaki, Japan • • • • Awarded Awarded Awarded Awarded Awards 1965 1987 1999 2002 the the the the Amagasaki Citizen’s Cultural Prize Hyogo Prefectural Cultural Prize for Excellence Distinguished Service Medal for Culture Osaka Art Prize Selected solo exhibitions 2012 2010 2009 2007 2004 2001 1999 1998 1997 1994 1993 1992 • Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium • Shiraga Kazuo, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan • Azumino Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Toyoshina, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • Painting Born Of Fighting, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Yokosuka-city, Japan • Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York, USA • Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France • Kazuo Shiraga. Paintings and Watercolours, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK • Gallery Apa, Nagoya, Japan • Kazuo Shiraga zum 80. Geburtstag, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany • Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan • Kazuo Shiraga. Paintings and Watercolours, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK • Kazuo Shiraga - Bilder von 1960 - 1991, Galerie Georg Nothelfer - Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany • Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan • Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan • Gallery Arai, Nishinomiya, Japan • Gallery Apa, Nagoya, Japan • Kazuo Shiraga, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Koln, Germany • Museum Kita, Nara, Japan • Keihan Gallery of Arts and Science, Osaka, Japan • Musée d’Art Moderne Réfectoire des Jacobins, Labège, France • Gallery Apa, Nagoya, Japan • Gallery MMG, Tokyo, Japan • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Galerie Stadler, Paris, France • Gallery Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany SEM-ART 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c 2 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1982 1980 1973 1964 1962 • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Gallery Shirakawa, Kyoto, Japan • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan • Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan • Amagasaki Cultural Centre, Amagasaki, Japan • Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan • Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany • Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France • Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy • Galerie Stadler, Paris, France • Gallery Be-Art, Kyoto, Japan • Kazuo Shiraga, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Gallery Haku, Osaka, Japan • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Shinanobashi Gallery, Osaka, Japan • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Galerie Stadler, Paris, France • International Center for Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) • Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy • Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan Selected group exhibitions 2012 2011 2010 • Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan • A Visual Essay on Gutai, Hauser & Wirth New York , New York City, USA • Explosion! Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden • Dance Your Life, Centre Pompidou; Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France • Symbiosis: Conversations Between East And West, Hackett I Mill, San Francisco, USA • Farbe im Fluß - Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany • Farbe im Fluss - 20 Jahre Weserburg - Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bre- men, Germany • TRA. The edge of becoming, Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy • Made in Japan, Tezukayama Gallery, Osaka, Japan • 40 Jahre Galerie Georg Nothelfer. 1971 - 2011, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany • Gutai: dipingere con il tempo e lo spazio, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland • Collection 3. Japanese Art 1950–2010, NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan • Japanese Art 1950–2010, The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania • Im 2-wöchingen Rhytmus, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany • Gutai: Painting with Time and Space, Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano, Swit- zerland • Art of Modern Japan, National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan • LE GRAND GESTE! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964, Museum Kunstpa- last, Düsseldorf, Germany SEM-ART 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c 3 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2002 2001 1999 1998 1997 1996 1994 1993 • Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950- 1970, UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA • In-finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy • The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, USA • La Biennale di Venezia, 53a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Fare Mondi, Venice, Italy • Under Each Other’s Spell: Gutai and New York, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Cen- ter, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition) • Astratte Figurazioni - Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin • Performing the City- Kunst Aktionismus im Stadt Raum 60er und 70er Jahre, Lothrin- ger13, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany • Summer of Contemporary Art, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan • Resounding Spirit: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, USA • Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA • Action Painting, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland • Summer Exhibition, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan • Artempo - Where Times Becomes Art, Museo Fortuny, Venice, Italy • La Vérité, Galerie Seine 51, Paris, France • Zéro, Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France • Sommer in Berlin - Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin, Germany • Zero - Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany • Arte religione politica, PAC - Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy • Big Bang - Destruction et creation dans l’art du 20e siècle, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France • Japanese, Korean and Chinese Art, BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects), Tokyo, Japan • Resounding Spirit - Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Samek Art Gallery , Lewisburg, USA • Gutai 1954-1972, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan • Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • Artists of Gutai Art Association, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan • Glimpses of the Permanent Collection, CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA • Samadhi - The Contemplation of Space, CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA • Le Tribù dell’Arte, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy • Vision, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan • Gutai, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France • Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, The Museum of Contemporary Art at The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA (Travelling Exhibi tion) • Torino Parigi New York Osaka. 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Un Art Autre, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition) • Formless: A User’s Guide, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France • Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition) • Gutai II: 1959-1965, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan • Gutai III: 1965-1972, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan • La Biennale di Venezia, 45a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Passagio ad Oriente, Venice, Italy • Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, Ehime Museum of Art, Matsuyama, Japan SEM-ART 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c 4 1992 1991 1990 1986 1985 1983 1979 1978 1976 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 • Gutai 1955/56: Restarting Point for Japanese Contemporary Art, Penrose Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • Artists of Gutai Art Association, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan • Gutai I: 1954-1958, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan • Outdoor Exhibition Revisited, Ashiya Park, Ashiya, Japan • Gutai Japanische Avantgarde 1954-1965, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany • Adventurers of Paintings ‘Gutai’, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan • Gutai: The Avant-Garde Group Unfinished, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan • Giappone all’avanguardia. Il Gruppo Gutai negli anni Cinquanta, Galleria Nazionale d’ Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy • Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France • Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai, Ashiya Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan • Action and Emotion, Paintings of the ‘50s, Informel, Gutai, Cobra, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan • Reconstructions: Avant-garde Art in Japan 1945- 1965, Oxford, Museum of Modern Art, UK (Travelling Exhibition) • Grupo Gutai: Pintura y Acción, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain (Travelling Exhibition) • Dada in Japan/Japanese Avantgarde 1920-1970, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition) • Jiro Yoshihara and Today’s Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan • La Biennale di Venezia 1978. From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy • Eighteen Years of Gutai Art, Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan • Aspetti dell’Informale. Mostra storica Internazionale, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, Italy • Exhibition at the entrance of Expo ’70 Midori Pavilion by the Gutai Group, Midori Pavi lion, Osaka, Japan • An Exhibition of Prints by Eight Gutai Artists, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • Spazi astratti. Dall’intuizione alla concettualizzazione, Galleria d’Arte Cortina, Milan, Italy • 1st Hiroshima Renaissance Art Exhibition, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan • 20th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan • 21st Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan • Contemporary Art Exhibition Only in the Night, Miyazaki Kanko Hotel, Miyazaki, Japan • Gutai Group Osaka Japan, Experiment Studio, Rotterdam, The Netherlands • Gutai Group Exhibition, Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria • 19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • 1st Japan Art Festival, Union Carbide Building, New York, USA • NUL 1966 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd zesenzestig), International Gallery Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands • 2ème Salon International des Galeries Pilotes Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Art Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland • 17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Yokohama, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • Moderne Malerei aus Japan, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland • NUL 1965 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd vijfenzestig), Stedelijk Museum, Ams- terdam, The Netherlands • The New Japanese Painters and Sculptures, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition) • 15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan SEM-ART 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c 5 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 • 16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan • Groupe Gutai, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition) • 14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan • The Beautiful Japan Exposition: The Annual Ring of Beauty, Takarazuka Family Land, Takarazuka, Japan • Intuiciones y Realizaciones Formales, Centro de Artes Visuales Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina • 12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan • 13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan • Exposition d’Art Moderne, Grand Palais, Paris, France • Galerie DuMont, Koln, Germany • 11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan • Bluhm, Gallizio, Onishi, Shiraga, Tapies, Twombly, Accademia filarmonico-letteraria, Alba, Italy • L’Incontro di Torino. Pittori d’America, Europa e Giappon, Palazzo della Promotrice al Valentino, Turin, Italy • Don’t Worry, the Moon Won’t Fall Down: Gutai Art and Morita Modern Dance, Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan • The Continuité et Avant-garde au Japon, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy • 10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • XII Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Palazzo del Centro del Mobile, Lissone, Italy • The International Sky Festival, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan • Arte Nuova, Esposizione Internazionale di pittura e scultura, Circolo degli Artisti in Palazzo Graneri, Turin, Italy • 8th Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhi- bition) • The Fifteen Japanese Contemporary Artists Recommended by Tapié, Gendai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan • XI Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Palazzo del Centro del Mobile, Lissone, Italy • Métamorphismes, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France • 2nd Gutai Art on the Stage, Asahi Hall, Osaka, Japan • International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • Gutai Small Works Exhibition (later known as 5th Gutai Art Exhibition), Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan • The Gutai Group Exhibition (later know as ‘6th Gutai Art Exhibition’), Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition) • 3rd Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan • Gutai Art on the Stage, Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • 4th Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan • International Art Exhibition of the World (Informel: Genèse d’un art autre), Takashi maya Department Store, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition) • One Day Only Outdoor Exhibition (also known as the Ruins Exhibition), Mukogawa River, Amagasaki, Japan • Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya Park, Ashiya, Japan • 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan • Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Midsummer Sun, Ashiya Park, Ashiya, Japan • 1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan SEM-ART 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c 6 SEM-ART SHIRAGA KAZUO 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c CHIKASI SHINSANSHI, 1961 195 x 130 cm Oil on canvas Signed & dated on canvas, left bottom side 7 SEM-ART SHIRAGA KAZUO 20, avenue de la Costa 98000 - MONACO Tel. : +377 97 70 50 70 Fax : +377 97 70 50 77 [email protected] w w w. s e m - a r t . m c UNTITLED, 1961 97 x 130 cm Oil on canvas Signed & dated on canvas, left bottom side 8 GUTAI exhibition at SEM ART GALLERY 9 GUTAI exhibition at SEM ART GALLERY 10