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Tadaaki Kuwayama, known for his experiments in monochrome painting, 1932–2023
Tadaaki Kuwayama, known for his monochrome painting, has died. Kuwayama was born in Nagoya, Japan, and studied Japanese nihonga painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music until 1956, but became fascinated from afar by the burgeoning abstract painting scene emerging in America and Europe at the time. The passion led to his emigration, alongside his wife, fellow artist Rakuko Naito, to New York two years after graduating.
There he developed a series of monochrome works, initially in bright primary colours, each canvas subdivided by vertical and horizontal metal strips.
Meeting the likes of Donald Judd and Frank Stella, into the 1970s his process became more industrial in intent, Kuwayama taking up acrylic and spray paint to produce metallic colours with a high-sheen finish, often presenting his work freestanding.
In 1966 he was included in two influential exhibitions, Systemic Painting at the Guggenheim Museum and Vormen van de Kleur (Forms of Colour) at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, but it was Germany who embraced his later work the most, especially as his palette became more austere and he experimented in the use of serial discrete canvases in a single work. He
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A New Appreciation Contemporary Japanese and Asian Art
In our ongoing series, we present the digital archive of the book 'A New Appreciation Contemporary Japanese and Asian Art' This book delves into internationally acclaimed artists and the dynamics of the Asian art market. The sixteenth installment features a dialogue between Yuichi Kawasaki, who was an art collector, and Koei Shiraishi.
Yuichi Kawasaki
Art Collector
Koei Shiraishi
Chief Executive Officer, Whitestone
Shiraishi: Mr. Kawasaki receives much attention as a rising young entrepreneur in the internet and advertisement business. On the other hand, Mr. Kawasaki is a great art collector (mainly contemporary art of domestic and international artists). He is also unique since he is a collector from the young generation. He is promising for us gallerists as well. I would like to focus on the collector side of him today.
Kawasaki: Please do not go too hard on me.
Encounter the Unknown World under the Rain in Karuizawa
Shiraishi: Let’s start with the episode of why you started collecting art.
Kawasaki: It was about seven to eight years ago when I was working on establishing my own company. I traveled to Karuizawa with my wife. We had a plan to cycle or drive around Kumobaike pond, a famo