Founded in 1954 in Osaka by Jiro Yoschihara, the Gutai movement represents one of the most interesting artistic avant-garde and the thickness of the post-war period. Forcing the boundaries of painting and sculpture, as well as lead to extreme consequences the ambivalent relationship with tradition, the Gutai movement fully captures the common feeling of the artistic moment developing in parallel, and in some cases also anticipating more Western movements: from ‘Informal Action Painting.
The artistic event invades the everyday, the crossing of genres moving painting, calligraphy, performances, plays, improvisation, and the so-called “avant-garde under heaven” answers the common need to overcome the limitations of traditional mediums, turning to the matter and the concreteness of the artistic medium.
Yasuo Sumi (1925) is known as one of the action painters of the Gutai movement. After entering the Gutai in 1955, and have participated in all exhibitions of the movement, from the first to the twenty-first, and, later, in the Art Club directed by Taro Okamoto, Sumi is now a member of the Group AU, at which inevitably participates in exhibitions.
My concept of art.
When I create my works, my feelings are a mix of yakekuso (desperation), fumajime (absence of seriousness) and charanporan (irresponsibility). Yakekuso is for me the condition of complete spiritual freedom, in which I become free from any limit and also my ability in itself becomes infinite. Fumajime is the refusal of the past. In the human society there have always been many codes, laws and rules, from the past till now. The refusal of all those rules is nothing but the future. At last, for charanporan I mean “the return to the real human shape”. In other words, if the bonds of the society and those of the family did not exist, I think that in those conditions everything would be “charanporan”. Man by nature has a great power, and when this power is expressed with desperation, absence of seriousness and irresponsibility, it becomes the manifestation of his true form.
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The artistic event invades the everyday, the crossing of genres moving painting, calligraphy, performances, plays, improvisation, and the so-called “avant-garde under heaven” answers the common need to overcome the limitations of traditional mediums, turning to the matter and the concreteness of the artistic medium.
Yasuo Sumi (1925) is known as one of the action painters of the Gutai movement. After entering the Gutai in 1955, and have participated in all exhibitions of the movement, from the first to the twenty-first, and, later, in the Art Club directed by Taro Okamoto, Sumi is now a member of the Group AU, at which inevitably participates in exhibitions.
My concept of art.
When I create my works, my feelings are a mix of yakekuso (desperation), fumajime (absence of seriousness) and charanporan (irresponsibility). Yakekuso is for me the condition of complete spiritual freedom, in which I become free from any limit and also my ability in itself becomes infinite. Fumajime is the refusal of the past. In the human society there have always been many codes, laws and rules, from the past till now. The refusal of all those rules is nothing but the future. At last, for charanporan I mean “the return to the real human shape”. In other words, if the bonds of the society and those of the family did not exist, I think that in those conditions everything would be “charanporan”. Man by nature has a great power, and when this power is expressed with desperation, absence of seriousness and irresponsibility, it becomes the manifestation of his true form.
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Yasuo Sumi - Carta – Sumi 16 – (2005). 67 × 61 cm.
Yasuo Sumi - Untitled (1967).
Yasuo Sumi - Work Paint on Canvas. 53 × 45,5 cm.
Yasuo Sumi at work.
Performance artistica di Yasuo Sumi. Evento collaterale della 52° Biennale d'Arte di Venezia - Cannaregio Giugno 2007.
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