Takiguchi Shūzō
Takiguchi Shūzō ( Japanese 瀧 口 修造 ; * December 7, 1903 , † July 1, 1979 ) was a Japanese poet, literary critic and painter. He is considered to be the most important representative of Surrealism in Japan alongside Nishiwaki Junzaburō , Kitasono Katue , Haruyama Yukio and (as a Dadaist ) Takagashi Shinkichi .
Life
Takiguchi began to publish poetry from 1926. He made Surrealism known in Japan at the end of the 1920s and was in contact with the group of Parisian Surrealists around André Breton . In 1935 he published an article in the Cahiers d'Art on Surrealism in Japan and in 1937 organized an Exhibition of Foreign Surrealist Works in Japan . In 1940 he wrote the world's first monograph on Joan Miró , who in turn honored him in 1979 with the gouache Hommage à Shuzo Takiguchi .
After the Second World War, Takiguchi worked mainly as an art critic and organizer of avant-garde art exhibitions. In the Takemiya Gallery alone, he organized two hundred exhibitions by young artists between 1951 and 1957. In 1958 he was commissioner of the Venice Biennale . On the subsequent European trip, he met André Breton, Salvador Dalí , Henri Michaux and Antoni Tàpies .
As a painter, Takiguchi mainly used the technique of décalcomanie , in which liquid paint is printed from a smooth plate on paper and the random product is processed and interpreted using painting or drawing. His first solo exhibition took place in 1960. In the following years he designed books with paintings and poems with other artists, such as To and From Rrose Selavy: Selected Words of Marcel Duchamp (1968) with Jasper Johns and Shusaku Arakawa and Handmade Proverbs to Joan Miró (1970) with Miró. A fifteen volume complete edition of his writings appeared between 1981 and 1998. His art collection was shown in 2005 at the Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo.
literature
- Gerhard Habarta: "Lexicon of Fantastic Artists" , BoD - Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 9783837084276 , p. 400
- Keith Aspley: "Historical Dictionary of Surrealism" , Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 9780810858473 , p. 461
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Takiguchi, Shūzō |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 瀧 口 修造 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese lyric poet, literary critic and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1903 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1979 |