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Untitled,
1971
Tadaaki Kuwayama
Print : Screen Print
31.4 x 40.7 x 0.1 cm 12.4 x 16 x 0 inch
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Numbered and limited to 350 copies
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Hand-signed by artist
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Dimensions cm • inch
31.4 x 40.7 x 0.1 cm 12.4 x 16 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Framing
White frame with plexiglass
Artwork dimensions including frame
42.5 x 52 x 3 cm 16.7 x 20.5 x 1.2 inch
Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
Artwork location: Japan
Tadaaki Kuwayama, born in 1932 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, is a distinguished contemporary artist renowned for his contributions to minimalism and geometric abstraction. He graduated with a BFA in Japanese painting from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1956, before moving to the United States in 1958, where he has since lived and worked in New York.
Kuwayama's work is celebrated for its radical neutrality and exploration of space and color. His art often challenges traditional boundaries, creating serene and contemplative pieces that transcend cultural and artistic norms. Over the years, Kuwayama has held numerous solo exhibitions worldwide, with recent shows at Nonaka-Hill in Los Angeles (2019), Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo (2018), and The Mayor Gallery in London (2017).
His art is included in the collections of prestigious institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Kuwayama remains a pivotal figure in the realm of contemporary art, continually redefining minimalist aesthetics.
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Born in 1932 in Nagoya, Japan, Tadaaki Kuwayama graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (1956), having studied nihonga, a traditional form of Japanese painting on paper or silk that uses naturally derived pigments and puts extreme emphasis on outlines and tonal modulation. Together with his wife, artist Rakuko Naito, he came to the United States in 1958, at roughly the same time as Japanese artists Yayoi Kusama and Yoko Ono. After settling in New York, Kuwayama eschewed both traditional Japanese painting and Abstract Expressionism, which dominated contemporary art, and instead experimented with highly reductive painting, producing canvases with brightly colored fields of paint in horizontal and vertical compositions, such as Untitled: red and blue (1961). In 1961, his first solo exhibition was held at Green Gallery, an uptown venue known for showing the work of the downtown avant-garde.
Through the 1960s, Kuwayama both refined his painting practice and began to explore three-dimensionality, creating painted wood-and-paper floor pieces and incorporating industrial materials into his work. By 1965, he had fully abandoned all nihonga techniques and began using spray-paint in an effort to make inscrutable works that were free from scratches and imperfections as well as any traces of the artist's hand. A 1966 work, Untitled: brown, blue, gray, purple, beige, consists of five canvases painted with acrylic spray and divided horizontally and vertically by strips of aluminum. Using hardware-store materials in commercially available colors, they could be hung in any order and, at least theoretically, produced in an infinite number: the number of canvases made was determined by the amount of space available in the gallery. Kuwayama framed the work as a means of addressing a Minimalist interest in perceptual and spatial dimension while retaining the two-dimensionality of painting.
Since the 1960s Kuwayama's work has continued to exhibit a subtle yet rigorous concern with perception as a quiet, spiritual experience, while relaxing the insistence on commercial materials and reintroducing media specific to the fine arts. Though still made from acrylic paint and aluminum strips, TK5182-3/4′75 (1975) incorporates metallic pigment and translucent layering to create a shimmering, continually changing surface. In the 1990s, Kuwayama began the ongoing series Projects, which comprise works of identical color and dimension, their installation determined by the light and architecture of the gallery space.
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