Shûsaku Arakawa

Nascimento : 1936-07-06, Nagoya, Japan

Morte : 2010-05-19

História

Arakawa (Shūsaku Arakawa; b. 1936, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan – d. 2010, New York) was an artist and architect who had a personal and artistic partnership with Madeline Gins that spanned more than four decades. He was one of the founding members of the Japanese avant-garde art collective Neo Dadaism Organizers and exhibited at the Yomiuri Independent exhibition from 1958 to 1961, an annual watershed event for postwar Japanese art. Arakawa arrived in New York in the end of 1961 and quickly rose to fame as one of the earliest practitioners of the international conceptual art movement of the 1960s. He represented Japan in XXXV Venice Biennale (1970) and was included in Documenta IV (1968) and Documenta VI (1977). His work has been shown extensively around the world and is held by numerous museum collections world-wide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Filmes

For Example: A Critique of Never
For Example: A Critique of Never
Cinematography
Experimental documentary film, set in the then-present day, about an impoverished, lost boy, living alone in the Bowery.
For Example: A Critique of Never
For Example: A Critique of Never
Writer
Experimental documentary film, set in the then-present day, about an impoverished, lost boy, living alone in the Bowery.
For Example: A Critique of Never
For Example: A Critique of Never
Director
Experimental documentary film, set in the then-present day, about an impoverished, lost boy, living alone in the Bowery.
Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
Writer
Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally becomes explicit in one of the most bizarre masturbation sequences ever filmed. For almost two hours, we observe a young, strikingly pretty girl, nude most of the time and alone in an apartment, engaged in a sonambulistic and sensuous attempt at coming to terms with herself.
Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology
Director
Why Not is hypnotic, compulsive and claustrophobic. It is bathed in a cold, pervasive eroticism, which, oblique and displaced at first, finally becomes explicit in one of the most bizarre masturbation sequences ever filmed. For almost two hours, we observe a young, strikingly pretty girl, nude most of the time and alone in an apartment, engaged in a sonambulistic and sensuous attempt at coming to terms with herself.
Art, Life and Opinions: Shūsaku Arakawa
Art, Life and Opinions: Shūsaku Arakawa
An interview with artist Shūsaku Arakawa.