GUTAI GROUP: Akira Kanayama – Nara, 1924 – 2005 / Sadamasa Motonaga – Born in Iga, Japan, 1922 Lives and works in Takarazuka City / Saburo Murakami – Kobe, 1925 – 1996 / Shozo Shimamoto Born in Osaka, 1928 Lives and works in Kyoto / Kazuo Shiraga – Amagasaki, Japan, 1924 – 2008 / Atsuko Tanaka – Nara, 1932 – 2005 / Tsuruko Yamazaki – Born in Ashiya, 1925 Lives and works in Ashiya / Jiro Yoshihara – Osaka, 1905 – 1972 / Michio Yoshihara – Ashiya, 1933 – 1996
Japanese avant-garde group. Gutai Bijutsu Kyokai (Gutai Art Association) was formed in 1954 in Osaka by Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo, and Shimamoto Shozo. The word has been translated into English as ‘embodiment’ or ‘concrete’. Yoshihara was an older artist around whom the group coalesced and who financed it. In their early public exhibitions in 1955 and 1956 Gutai artists created a series of striking works anticipating later Happenings and Performance and Conceptual art.
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