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The House Is a Work of Art: Kazuyo Sejima on her fascination with "Shinohara's way" - Harvard Graduate School of Design

The diffuse spread of artistic thought and technique that we call “influence” impacts architecture in ways that are often difficult to discern. In his

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571 Back-Wing is an armchair designed by Patricia Urquiola for the Cassina brand. The sensoriality of the skin is combined with the essence of wood for a seat with a strong impact design.The seating collection is made of solid natural ash wood, oak stained, black stained, amaranth tinted, night blue stained and canaletto walnut. The large sections of the legs and the crosspieces highlight its solid form. The leather upholstery rests gently and folds over the structure giving the chair great comf

Shinohara's Tanikawa House (1974), Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture. Photo by Ueda Hiroshi.

Kazuo Shiraga

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KAZUO SHIRAGA, 1955

The 1950s in Japan were a time of rediscovery and renewal in art, graphics, furniture, photography, ceramics, woodblock prints, cinema, literature, textile design, and architecture. Kazuo Shinohara…

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Shiraga painting with his feet for Life magainze, at the Nishinomiya factory of Yoshihara's salad oil company, 1956. Mnuchin Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of major paintings by Kazuo Shiraga (1924 – 2008).  Tracing the evolution of Shiraga’s signature “foot painting” method over his entire career, it will feature 20 examples spanning nearly five decades, beginning in 1959.  It will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue authored by noted Gutai scholar Dr. Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University, with an introduction by Dr. Reiko Tomii, independent art historian and curator.  The exhibition will be on view February 10 - April 11, 2015. Shiraga first embarked upon his experiments with foot painting in 1954, on a quest to articulate a radical individualism as a rejection of Japan’s wartime militarism. Throwing away his brushes and rejecting his hands as too trained, Shiraga began painting with his feet, which enabled a fresh and direct mode of expression. Starting with paper or canvas laid out on the floor, the artist would deposit copious amounts of oil paint on the surface, and paint with the movements of his bare feet, sometimes hanging from the ceiling by a rope. Shiraga went on to employ this method of painting for the rest of his career, declaring, “I have never doubted that ‘action painting’ is my expression, never stopped it.  I will single-mindedly continue to paint my painting with a sincere desire that the pleasure of making a painting will be communicated to those who see it.”1 While the palette and mood of these works evolved over time, they are united by a vigorous energy and a facture so dramatically rich and textured as to be almost sculptural.    Shiraga placing paint with palette knife, ca. 1965 A leading member of the Gutai Art Association, the most influential collective of avant-garde artists in postwar Japan, Shiraga is known not only for his innovations in action painting but also for his groundbreaking performances, such as Challenging Mud (1955), which predated Allan Kaprow’s Happenings in the United States and Europe.  Shiraga’s work featured prominently in the Museum of Modern Art’s 2012-2013 exhibition, Tokyo 1955 – 1970: A New Avant-Garde and in the Guggenheim’s 2013 exhibition, Gutai: Splendid Playground, co-curated by Dr. Tiampo. Shiraga will be the subject of Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga, a two-person exhibition opening at the Dallas Museum of Art in February 2015. 1. Kazuo Shiraga, “Akushon peintingu eno michi” [A path to action painting], trans. Reiko Tomii in Kazuo Shiraga: Six Decades, exh. cat. (New York: McCaffrey Fine Art, 2009), 68.  Originally published in Shiraga Kazuo-ten, exh. cat. (Amagasaki: Amagasaki Cultural Center, 1989).    この足で描きはじめてよりの三十五年の間に、現代美術の世界ではいろんな新しいものが生まれ、流行の嵐が吹き荒れた。しかし私はアクションペインティングこそ自分 の芸術表現と信じて疑わず、これをやり続けてきた。絵を描くことの喜びが、観る人達に伝わることを一心に願って、自分の絵をひたすら描き続けるだけである。 THIRTY-FIVE YEARS SINCE I INVENTED MY FOOT PAINTING, THE ART WORLD HAS SEEN MANY NEW THINGS, MANY STYLISTIC STORMS.  HOWEVER, I HAVE NEVER DOUBTED THAT “ACTION PAINTING”  IS MY EXPRESSION, NEVER STOPPED IT. I WILL SINGLE-MINDEDLY  CONTINUE TO PAINT MY PAINTING WITH A SINCERE DESIRE THAT THE PLEASURE OF MAKING A PAINTING WILL BE COMMUNICATED TO THOSE WHO SEE IT.  - KAZUO SHIRAGA