Code:
35600
Framed
Prestigious provenance: The Kenzo Kagami Collection of postwar japanese art/Asobi, Christie's, London, United Kingdom, 11 oct 2016, lot 78,Illustrated on page 48 of the catalog; here bought by the actual owner. The work was presented in a single lot together with the work presented by Artesegno with code 35601.
Hammer price: €9,435 (£8,500) for both works.
Senkichiro Nasaka, a Japanese artist, is best known for his role in the Gutai Art Association, one of the most influential international artistic avant-garde movements of the second half of the 20th century. He began his artistic studies in traditional Japanese painting at the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting (now Kyoto City University of Arts), where he was a classmate of Kazuo Shiraga, a leading artist of the Gutai movement. In 1952, he completed his studies in the Japanese painting department. In 1965, he officially joined the Gutai Art Association, a group founded in 1954 by Jiro Yoshihara. Nasaka presented his works at the group's important exhibition, the 15th Gutai Exhibition (1965), an event that marked his official admission to the Gutai Art Association. Initially influenced by Michel Tapiés's Art Informel, the artist soon developed a personal style that fused art and technology, experimenting with hard-edge painting, kinetic art, and light art. This approach embodied the Gutai spirit, aimed at exploring new expressive and material territories. He was one of the group's artists to integrate modern technologies and concepts into his works: he used electric motors to apply paint and constructed large-scale installations using pipes and other industrial materials. He is considered a significant figure of the second phase of the Gutai movement (1960s–1970s), the period in which artists explored new techniques and materials, often in dialogue with emerging technologies and unconventional ways of conceiving art. His works are part of Japanese museum collections such as the Ashiya City Museum of Art and History and the Miyagi Museum of Art, and he has participated in group exhibitions and major international retrospectives, such as: - "Gutai: Splendid Playground", at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (February 15 – May 8, 2013) – a landmark exhibition that explored the importance of the Gutai group in the postwar global art scene. - "Gutai TransForm: Yuko & Senkichiro Nasaka", Whitestone Gallery, Taipei (December 16, 2023 – February 17, 2024) – an exhibition that compares the works of Senkichiro with those of his wife Yuko Nasaka within the history of the Gutai movement.
Price including buyer's premium: €11,794 (£10,625) ditto
Signed on the reverse
Private sale