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Updated: August 19, 2009, 1:42 pm |
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Springs - Billed as an exhibition that examines the fruitful relationship which developed between the avant-garde Gutai Art Association, founded in Osaka, Japan in 1954, and New York artists in the 1950s and 1960s, "Under Each Other's Spell" draws in particular on material in the Pollock-Krasner House collection, and a group of paintings in the collection of Paul Jenkins, who was an artist in residence at the Gutai Pinacotheca in Osaka in 1964. The paintings were given to Jenkins in exchange for his own works as an act of friendship.
Recalling the time he and the Gutai artists spent together, Jenkins said that they were "under each other's spell." He will discuss his association with the Gutai in a gallery talk at the Pollack-Krasner Museum on Sunday, Aug. 16 at 5 p.m.
In the group's manifesto, its founder Jiro Yoshihara defined Gutai as truth to the material of which art is made and the lifting of that material to spiritual heights. He singled out Jackson Pollock and the French painter Georges Mathieu as artists who "grapple with the material in a way which is completely appropriate to it," and encouraged group members to emulate this approach. Their efforts were publicized in a journal, Gutai, of which 14 issues appeared from between the years 1955 to 1965.
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