TSURUKO YAMAZAKI TSURUKO YAMAZAKI

TSURUKO YAMAZAKI

TSURUKO YAMAZAKI
TSURUKO YAMAZAKI

Tsuruko Yamazaki was born in Ashiya-city, Hyogo. While studying at the Obayashi Sacred Heart School in 1946, Yamazaki became acquainted with the founder of the Gutai Art Association, Jiro Yoshihara. In 1948, Yamazaki presented her work at the 1st Ashiya City Exhibition. She is one of the few members of the Gutai group involved with the movement from its establishment to its dissolution. After working with the Gutai Art Association, fellow artist Masunobu Yoshimura invited her to join the ‘Artist Union' group. Yamazaki is known for her paintings with vivid colours and strips and sculptural works made of tin cans painted in fluorescent hues. She attracted attention with her large-scale installation titled Red at the Gutai's One-Day Outdoor Exhibition (1956). This installation featured a mosquito net, allowing viewers to enter and fully engage with the piece. This piece was an early example of interactive art that is still relevant in the art world today. From the 1980s onward, Yamazaki was active as a freelancer. Her works have been exhibited in Japan and internationally in countries like Germany, France, Belgium, and Spain.

 

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50 Years Since the End | The Gutai Art Association as seen at the National Museum of Art, Osaka

January 4, 2023
ART NEWS

50 Years Since the End | The Gutai Art Association Revives at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka

December 27, 2022
ART NEWS

ARTICLES

“Into the Unknown World — GUTAI: Differentiation and Integration” at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art and the National Museum of Art

October 19, 2022
Osaka, Japan

Artist Tsuruko Yamazaki's Atelier Interview
GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
07/35
Who is artist Tsuruko Yamazaki?

GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
06/35

Art Historian Kunio Motoe’s Take On the “Gutai Art Association”
GUTAI STILL ALIVE 2015 vol.1
01/35

MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
2012
LADS Gallery, Osak
2010
Tsuruko Yamazaki Beyond Gutai : 1957-2009, Galerie Almine Rech, Pari
2009
LADS Gallery, Osaka
Gallery Cellar, Tokyo
2007
LADS Gallery, Osak
2004
Reflection, Ashiya city Museum , Ashiya Gallery Shimada, Kob
2003
LADS Gallery, Osaka
2000
LADS Gallery, Osaka
1997
LADS Gallery, Osaka
1995
LADS Gallery, Osaka
Gallery Renaissance, Tokyo
1986
Art Space Niji, Kyoto
1980
Art Space, Nishinomiya
1973
Fujimi Gallery , Osaka
1967
Gallery Petit Imabashi, Osaka
1963
Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
Chuo Gallery, Tokyo

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Artvida:ambiente, Escola de Artes Visuais Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro
2013
Gutai:Splended Playground, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2012
A Visual Essay on Gutai at 32 East 69th Street, Hauser & Wirth, New York
Nul=0, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
Silent Echoes : Collection Exhibition , 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
GUTAI : The Spirit of an Era, The NaAonal Art Center, Tokyo
2011
When Vibrations Become Forms -Curated by Midori Nishizawa, Marianne Boesky Gallery,New York
2010
Gutai : Painting with Time and Space, Museo Cantonale d’Arte Lugano, Switzerland
2009
Hundred Stories About Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
YAMAZAKI, Tsuruko
Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, La Biennale di Venezia : 53rd Esposizione InternaAonale d’Arte  Venice, Italy
2008
The Alliance, Gallery Hyundai Company, DoArt Beijing/Seoul
Rose is a Rose is a Rose : Yayoi Kusama, Atsuko Tanaka, Tsuruko Yamazaki, FoudaAon De Elf Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
2007
Collection, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2006
Zero – Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsselfdorf
2004
Gutai 1954-1972, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
2001
Le Tribù dell’Arte (Part 1) , Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Roma
1994
Kirin Plaza, Osaka
1993
Gutai 2 : 1959-1965, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History
XLV Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte (La Biennale di Venezia), Venice Bienale, Venice Gutai 3 : 1965-1972, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History
Gutai 1955/56 : A Restarting Point for Japanese Contemporary Art, Penrose InsAtute, Tokyo
1992
Gutai 1 : 1954-1958, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History
Re-creation of the Outdoor Exhibition, Ashiya Park, banks of the Ashiya River
1991
Gutai Japanische Avantgarde / Japanese Avant-garde 1954-1965, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
1990
Gutai : Unfinished Avant-garde Group, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
Giappone all’avanguardia - Gruppo Gutai negli anni Cinquanta, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma
1989
The Legendary YAMAMURA Collection, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
1986
Gutai : Akcija i Slikarstvo, Muzej Savremene UmetnosA, Belgrade
Gutai : Action and Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Japon des Avant gardes 1910-1970, Musée NaAonal d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1985
YAMAMURA Collection Exhibition, NaAonal Museum of Art, Osaka
Jiro YOSHIHARA and Gutai, Ashiya CiAzen’s Center
Groupo Gutai : Pintura y Accion, Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid
1984
Contemporary Art 1950-1970, Yao Seibu Hall, Osaka
1983
Sechs Japanische Künstler der Gutai-Gruppe, Atelierhaus Hildebrandstrasse, Düsseldorf
Six Japanese Artists of the Gutai Group, Itami City Art Gallery
1979
Jiro YOSHIHARA and Today’s Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
1978
Artist’s Union Symposium, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum 18 Years of Gutai Art, Osaka Municipal Gallery
1971
Exhibition to Celebrate the Founding of the Gutai Mini Pinacotheca,
Gutai Mini Pinacotheca, Osaka
YAMAZAKI, Tsuruko
1970
Exhibition at Expo’70, Outdoor Section, “Garden on Garden”
(collective work by the Gutai group), Expo’70 Museum, Osaka
Exhibition at the entrance of Expo’70 Midori Pavilion by the Gutai group, Expo’70 Midori Pavilion, Osaka
Gutai Art Festival – Performance by Humans and Objects on the Expo’70 Festival Square, Expo’70 FesAval Square, Osaka
1966
2e Salon International des Galeries Pilotes Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne
1965
Nul Negentienhonderd vijf en Zestig, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1964
Trends in Contemporary Art – Painting and Sculpture, NaAonal Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1st Nagaoka Museum of Contemporary Art Award, Nagaoka Museum of Contemporary Art
1962
Exhibition to Celebrate the Founding of the Gutai Pinacotheca, Gutai Pinocotheca, Osaka
Don’t Worry, the Moon Won’t Fall Down, Sankei Hall, Osaka
1961
Continuité et Avant-garde au Japon, InternaAonal Center of AestheAc Research, Turin
1960
International Sky Festival, Roof of Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka
1958
International Art of a New Era – Informel and Gutai, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka others
1957
Gutai Art on Stage, Sankei Kaikan Hall, Osaka Sankei Hall, Tokyo
1956
One Day Outdoor Exhibition, Ruins at mouth of the Muko River, Amagasaki
Shinko Independent Exhibition(Part 2), Shinko Shimbun 3F Hall, Kobe
Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya Park, banks of the Ashiya River
1955
Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Callenge the Midsummer Sun, Ashiya park, banks of the Ashiya River
1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Kaikan Hall,Tokyo ConAnued unAl the 21th,1968
1954
1st Modern Art Fair, Daimaru Department Store, Osaka
1953
1st Genbi Exhibitoin, Asahi Building Gallery, Kobe
ConAnued, unAl the 3th exhibiAon
1948
1st Ashiya City Art Exhibition, Ashiya City hall, Ashiya
ConAnued, at 7th ExhibiAon, Be get membership, From 21th ExhibiAon be inspector

IMAGES

Work, 2007, Oil on canvas, 41.2 x 32.1 cm
Untitled, 12-16/60, Lacquer, dye and aluminium, 17.5 x 15.5 cm
Untitled , 2003, Acrylic on canvas, panel, 91.0 x 72.0 cm
Work, 2003, Oil on canvas, 22.7 x 15.8 cm
Work, 1960, Lacquer on paper, 27.0 x 27.0 cm

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