three exhibitions on Japan: Ineffable Perfection, Araki and especially Gutai. Gutai is an artistic movement that developed in Japan since the mid-50s to early 70s and has influenced and interacted was compared with European and American movements for the same period: Pollock, Fontana, Tinguely, action paintings, informal, dripping, body art, happenings ... shapes colors mixed media materials of all kinds innovative surprising.
Gutai means real and concrete meaning to the movement experience.
guess these young artists in the post-war Japan, hurt and shocked, that reconstruct their imagination and re-invented its forms, that plunge in the colors (literally, as did some of them) or that - again bringing into play with their own bodies - rip the canvas. I guess women who are part of the movement, I see their works, the lights of the bells Atsuko Tanaka, cans of red lacquered Tsuruko Yamazaki (one of the few members of the group still alive and active), I seem to feel the vibrations of their creative activity. with contemporary art is not joking. It should be competence. And I know I do not have enough. But we also need instinct and ability to see, and I do not miss these. Maybe I'm wrong in one thing. I think I am afraid that these works have liked me so much because I feel close to my way of understanding art. I mean - in simplified form - the Western feel. And this is not a compliment to these Japanese artists. But it is precisely this trait that I want to linger, and in advance deepen. Who influenced whom. And I like to think that no one because no one has influenced the art is. One great thought that moves, which expands and spreads in the collective, even at a distance of miles, even without a real and direct communication. The art hangs in the universe forever. Ever since humans invented the myths and legends and fairy tales and made her own even though they were similar to the antipodes of the planet and their minds had never met. Never met physically. But in the world of ideas.
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