Tsuyoshi Maekawa
Tsuyoshi Maekawa
Tsuyoshi Maekawa (b. 1936) was a member of the Gutai Art Association, Japan’s most significant avant-garde collective of the postwar era, founded in 1954. He was included in the 8th Gutai Exhibition at the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in 1959, and became a protégé of the group’s founder, Jirō Yoshihara. The first solo exhibition of Maekawa’s work was held at the Gutai Pinacotheca in Osaka in November 1963. From that point until the group’s eventual dissolution following Yoshihara’s death in 1972, Maekawa was represented in every Gutai event.
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The Art Newspaper | Gutai's Spectacular Rise
June 1, 2017
After a show in Venice and sales in Paris a decade ago, US collectors started to take the post-war Japanese …
Art Versed | Gutai Revival: Tsuyoshi Maekawa’s Tactile Canvases at Saatchi SALON
April 13, 2017
The Gutai movement set about to embody human creativity in material form. With an emphasis on radical …
Neue Zurcher Zeitung | Tu, was keiner zuvor getan hat!
April 1, 2017
«Tsuyoshi» bedeutet «stark», «kräftig». Der 81-jährige japanische Künstler Tsuyoshi Maekawa …
Almost Essential | Art Consultant, Nico’s three shows not to be missed in March
March 1, 2017
The inaugural show 001 is a solo presentation in collaboration with Levy Gorvy of paintings by the celebrated …
artdaily | Saatchi Gallery launches new exhibition space
February 1, 2017
Lévy Gorvy will inaugurate SALON with an exhibition by Tsuyoshi Maekawa, opening on 24 February 2017.
Artlyst | Levy Gorvy Inaugurate SALON A New Commercial Collaboration At Saatchi Gallery
February 1, 2017
Philly Adams, Senior Director of Saatchi Gallery has launched a new venture which will work in collaboration …
Artnet | New Saatchi Gallery Space Launches With Lévy Gorvy Show
February 1, 2017
On February 24, London’s Saatchi Gallery will launch a new commercial space called SALON, dedicated …
The New York Times | Staging a Rescue From Obscurity
March 20, 2014
We live in what might be called the era of “no artist left behind.” It’s a period of sometimes …
Hyperallergic | Norio Imai and Tsuyoshi Maekawa’s New York Debuts: Outside Japan, the Enduring Lure of Gutai
March 15, 2014
In recent years, both within and outside Japan, interest in the post–World War II Gutai art movement …
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