Articles of ‘Midori Nishizawa’

A Visual Essay on Gutai

A Visual Essay on Gutai

Hauser & Wirth - New York
Curated by Midori Nishizawa
By Paul Laster
An avant-garde art movement that developed in postwar Japan, Gutai was founded by Jiro Yoshihara and a group of young artists from Osaka and Kobe in 1954. A self-taught artist and son of a wealthy Osaka merchant, Yoshihara called for a style of “art that [...]