Shūsaku Arakawa
Shūsaku Arakawa ( Japanese 荒 川 修 作 , Arakawa Shūsaku ; born July 6, 1936 in Nagoya , Japan , † May 18, 2010 in New York City ) was a Japanese painter , graphic artist and architect .
life and work
Shūsaku Arakawa studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo and then art at the Musashino Art School . At first he worked as an artist with abstract prints , also in the Dada style. He lived in New York City since 1961.
Arakawa worked with his partner Madeline Gins (1941–2014) since 1963 . Together they founded the Architectural Body Research Foundation . In 1968 he took part in the 4th documenta in Kassel with graphics . He was also represented as a participating artist at Documenta 6 in 1977 . In 1970 he was represented at the Venice Biennale and in 1978 had an important exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam .
Arakawa and his partner designed well-known residential buildings (Reversible Destiny Houses, Bioscleave House, Shidami Resource Recycling Model House) and parks (Site of Reversible Destiny-Yoro). They developed their own theory with implemented practice about the relationship between humans and their external world, elaborated on in their book: Architectural Body . Arakawa and gins, together and separately, are the authors of numerous books and exhibition catalogs.
Literature and Sources
- IV. Documenta. International exhibition ; Catalog: Volume 1: (Painting and Sculpture); Volume 2: (Graphics / Objects); Kassel 1968.
- Shusaku Arakawa, Madeline Gins: Mechanism of meaning: (work in the making; 1963–1971) , Munich 1971 ISBN 3-7654-1439-5 .
- Dagmar Buchwald (Ed.): Never die !! Architecture Against Death, Madeline Gins and Arakawa. JOVIS Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-939633-51-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Shūsaku Arakawa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Shūsaku Arakawa on kunstaspekte.de
- Shūsaku Arakawa + Madeline Gins: Architectural Body (Japanese, English)
- Examples of his work
- Examples of its architecture
- Materials by and about Shusaku Arakawa in the documenta archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arakawa, Shūsaku |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 荒 川 修 作 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese architect, painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagoya , Japan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 2010 |
| Place of death | New York City |