Tsuyoshi Maekawa

Japanese(1936)

Works

Tsuyoshi Maekawa (born 1936) is a Japanese artist associated with the Gutai Art Association, the influential postwar avant-garde collective founded by Jiro Yoshihara in Osaka. He is best known for his distinctive textile-based works that incorporate burlap and rope, which he affixes, ties, and binds onto canvas surfaces to create tactile, relief-like compositions that challenge the boundaries between painting and sculpture. His practice is considered significant within the broader context of postwar Japanese art and the international Material Art movement.

Mixed Media Abstract Oil Japanese Japanese Artist Canvas Textural Oil on Canvas Contemporary Geometric Abstract Art Gutai Group

Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Maekawa joined the influential Gutai group in 1962, after years of mentorship from the group’s renowned founder Jiro Yoshihara. As a second generation Gutai follower, Maekawa continued the artistic pursuit of originality, relying creatively on the group’s manifesto which declares to “Do something no one else has ever done before!” Though devoid of a performative quality, the present lot,

作品

85427A; 84561; and 84516

1967 G 80-2

1967

Work A-42

1963

Artists in conversation