The volume is dedicated to Shūsaku Arakawa (1936, Nagoya - 2010, New York), Japanese-born artist and architect, active mainly in the United States. An essential figure in international conceptual art, his research is aimed at mental mechanisms and at decoding the world through philosophical categories. Born in Nagoya in 1936, he moved to Tokyo to study at the Faculty of Art, where he was part of the neo-dada environment. In 1961 he left Japan for New York: his first meeting was with Marcel Duchamp, who became his mentor and introduced him to the lively artistic environment, where he frequented John Cage, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. The following year, in 1962, he met the woman who will be his partner in the profession and in life, Madeline Gins; in the meantime he developed a language made of words, signs, shadows, lines, simple morphemes and color gradations.
La pubblicazione è dedicata a Shūsaku Arakawa (1936, Nagoya - 2010, New York), artista e architetto di origini giapponesi ma attivo soprattutto negli Stati Uniti. Figura imprescindibile del concettuale internazionale, la sua ricerca è volta ai meccanismi mentali e alla decodifica del mondo attraverso categorie filosofiche. Nato a Nagoya nel 1936, si trasferisce a Tokyo per studiare presso la Facoltà d’Arte, dove fa parte dell’ambiente neo-dada. Nel 1961 lascia il Giappone per New York: il primo incontro è con Marcel Duchamp che diviene il suo mentore e lo introduce al vivissimo ambiente artistico, dove frequenterà John Cage, Jasper Johns e Robert Rauschenberg, tra gli altri. L’anno successivo, nel 1962, conosce quella che sarà la sua compagna nella professione e nella vita, Madeline Gins; nel mentre mette a punto un linguaggio fatto di parole, segni, ombre, linee, semplici morfemi e gradazioni di colore.
Trevisan, B., Shūsaku Arakawa. Il colore della mente / The color of the mind, Kunstverein Publishing Milano, Milano 2022: 40 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/205020]
Shūsaku Arakawa. Il colore della mente / The color of the mind
Trevisan, Bianca
Primo
2022
Abstract
The volume is dedicated to Shūsaku Arakawa (1936, Nagoya - 2010, New York), Japanese-born artist and architect, active mainly in the United States. An essential figure in international conceptual art, his research is aimed at mental mechanisms and at decoding the world through philosophical categories. Born in Nagoya in 1936, he moved to Tokyo to study at the Faculty of Art, where he was part of the neo-dada environment. In 1961 he left Japan for New York: his first meeting was with Marcel Duchamp, who became his mentor and introduced him to the lively artistic environment, where he frequented John Cage, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. The following year, in 1962, he met the woman who will be his partner in the profession and in life, Madeline Gins; in the meantime he developed a language made of words, signs, shadows, lines, simple morphemes and color gradations.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.