Abstract
The volume is dedicated to Shūsaku Arakawa (1936, Nagoya - 2010, New York), Japanese-born artist and architect, active mainly in the United States. An essential figure in international conceptual art, his research is aimed at mental mechanisms and at decoding the world through philosophical categories. Born in Nagoya in 1936, he moved to Tokyo to study at the Faculty of Art, where he was part of the neo-dada environment. In 1961 he left Japan for New York: his first meeting was with Marcel Duchamp, who became his mentor and introduced him to the lively artistic environment, where he frequented John Cage, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, among others. The following year, in 1962, he met the woman who will be his partner in the profession and in life, Madeline Gins; in the meantime he developed a language made of words, signs, shadows, lines, simple morphemes and color gradations.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Shūsaku Arakawa. The color of the mind / The color of the mind |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Publisher | Kunstverein Publishing Milano |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-88-32125-08-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Shūsaku Arakawa
- arte concettuale
- conceptual art