Gutai Art Association

The Gutai Art Association (1954–72) was an avant-garde collective founded by artist, critic, and teacher Yoshihara Jirō in the cosmopolitan town of Ashiya, near Osaka, in western Japan.

Exhibitions and catalogues

• Gutai, permanent exhibition, Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Osaka.
• Gutaï: exposition, Jeu de Paume, Paris, May-Jun 1999.
• "Under Each Other's Spell": Gutai and New York, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton, NY, Jul-Oct 2009; Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, Oct-Dec 2009; UB Anderson Gallery, U Buffalo, Spring 2010. Catalogue.
• Gutai: Painting with Time and Space, LAC, Lugano, Oct 2010-Feb 2011.
• Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, National Art Center, Tokyo, Jul-Sep 2012. Review.
• A Visual Essay on Gutai at 32 East 69th Street, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Sep-Oct 2012.
• Gutai: Splendid Playground, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Feb-May 2013. Catalogue.

Literature

• Alexandra Munroe, "To Challenge the Midsummer Sun: The Gutai Group", in Scream Against the Sky: Japanese Art After 1945, ed. Munroe, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994, pp 83-124.
• Ming Tiampo, Gutai: Decentering Modernism, University of Chicago Press, 2010. [1]
• writings by Ming Tiampo.
• Gutai at Tate Glossary

See also

• Japan#Anti-art, Non-art

Links

• Gutai & Fluxus blog.
• http://archives.carre.pagesperso-orange.fr/Gutai.html
• Gutai at Wikipedia