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Kazuo Shiraga: A Retrospective
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
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Kazuo Shiraga
*Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery will close exhibitions as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
In recent years there has been renewed international attention for Kazuo Shiraga (1924–2008), known as a key member of the Gutai Art Association that drove postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Born in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Shiraga started his career in 1954 (a year before joining the Gutai movement) with his “Foot Paintings” directly using his foot to paint on canvases spread out on the floor. Through this practice and exploration, he forged new frontiers in the art world. His radical move to give this approach a leading role in painting, when before physical movements (action/performance) had simply been methods of production, upturned artistic and social conventions as a breakthrough idea that returned the act of human creation to its primal roots. Shiraga continued with his cutting-edge principles of creation even after the Gutai Art Association disbanded, producing works with an overwhelming power to set everything within human existence – space, time, materiality, and movement – aflame, while at the same time deepening the unique beauty of oil painting through its drops of paint, bleeding edges, viscosity, fluidity, and vigor.
In recent years there has been renewed international attention for Kazuo Shiraga (1924–2008), known as a key member of the Gutai Art Association that drove postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Born in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Shiraga started his career in 1954 (a year before joining the Gutai movement) with his “Foot Paintings” directly using his foot to paint on canvases spread out on the floor. Through this practice and exploration, he forged new frontiers in the art world. His radical move to give this approach a leading role in painting, when before physical movements (action/performance) had simply been methods of production, upturned artistic and social conventions as a breakthrough idea that returned the act of human creation to its primal roots. Shiraga continued with his cutting-edge principles of creation even after the Gutai Art Association disbanded, producing works with an overwhelming power to set everything within human existence – space, time, materiality, and movement – aflame, while at the same time deepening the unique beauty of oil painting through its drops of paint, bleeding edges, viscosity, fluidity, and vigor.
Schedule | Jan 11 (Sat) 2020-Feb 28 (Fri) 2020 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥1200, University & High School Students ¥800, Junior High Students & Younger and Persons with Disability Certificates & 1 Companion Free | ||||
| Venue | Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery http://www.operacity.jp/en/ag/  | ||||
| Location | 3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1403 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from the East exit of Hatsudai Station on the Keio New line, 11 minute walk from Sangubashi Station on the Odakyu Odawara line, 12 minute walk from exit A2 at Nishi-shinjuku-gochome Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||||
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