About the Exhibition

Karuizawa New Art Museum has been presenting Gutai-jin in form of a solo exhibition for a year. It has been focusing on the avant-garde artists’ group, “Gutai Art Association”, which is considered to be one of the pioneers of the post-war Japanese contemporary art. We exhibit over 120 works produced by the total of 23 Gutai artists as a compilation of the Gutai series. It is including 14 artists who had already presented their works in this museum last year.


[On Display〕 Jiro Yoshihara, Shozo Shimamoto, Michio Yoshihara, Chiyu Uemae, Tsuruko Yamazaki, Masatoshi Masanobu, Yasuo Sumi, Kazuo Shiraga, Sadamasa Motonaga, Atsuko Tanaka, Akira Kanayama, Yozo Ukita, Yutaka Matsuda, Shuji Mukai, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Takesada Matsutani, Yuko Nasaka, Senkichiro Nasaka, Aine Kinashi, Norio Imai, Minoru Onoda, Minoru Yoshida, Sadaharu Horio, Yutaka Matsuda
(In order of entrance for the Gutai)



Caption of the main image : Aine Kinashi 《Work》 1960-65, Oil on canvas, 116.7× 91.0
Caption of the eye-catch image : Tsuyoshi Maekawa 《Work》 1991, Burlap, oil on canvas, 131.0×97.0