Minoru Yoshida | |
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Born | 1935[1] Osaka
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Died | 2010 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Kyoto City University of Fine Arts [1] |
Known for | Painting, Sculpture, & Performance Art |
Movement | Gutai Art Association |
Minoru Yoshida (1935–2010) was a Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist, associated with the Gutai Art Association.
Yoshida attended a high school which specialized in science before studying painting at Kyoto City University of Fine Arts. [2]
He briefly ran a kimono-dyeing shop before beginning his professional career as an artist. [3]
Yoshida is a second-generation Gutai artist, noted in the 1960s for his hard edge abstract paintings and futuristic sculptures before shifting the focus of his work to the performance format in the 1970s. [4] In 1965 he joined the Gutai movement. [3] Yoshida began incorporating performance art into his practice while living in New York City. [4] His performances often incorporated a "synthesizer jacket," a garment the artist created from plexiglass and adorned with circuits and resembling his earlier sculptures. [5] The artist also wired speakers into panels that were worn around the wearer’s thighs. By operating the different switches on the jacket, sculptural garment emitted a series of different rhythmic electronic sounds. [6] Yoshida lived in New York City from 1970 to 1978 before returning to Japan where he continued to work and perform until his death in 2010. [3]
He was included in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Gutai Art Exhibitions at the Gutai Pinacotheca. [1] His piece Bisexual Flower was included in the Osaka World Expo 1970. [4] In 2013, Yoshida was included in Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. [7]
Yoshida's works can be found in the collections of Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan; Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan; Takamatsu Municipal Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; and National Museum of Modern Art, [8] Kyoto, Japan. [9] [10]
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Minoru Yoshida | |
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Born | 1935[1] Osaka
[1] |
Died | 2010 |
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Kyoto City University of Fine Arts [1] |
Known for | Painting, Sculpture, & Performance Art |
Movement | Gutai Art Association |
Minoru Yoshida (1935–2010) was a Japanese painter, sculptor, and performance artist, associated with the Gutai Art Association.
Yoshida attended a high school which specialized in science before studying painting at Kyoto City University of Fine Arts. [2]
He briefly ran a kimono-dyeing shop before beginning his professional career as an artist. [3]
Yoshida is a second-generation Gutai artist, noted in the 1960s for his hard edge abstract paintings and futuristic sculptures before shifting the focus of his work to the performance format in the 1970s. [4] In 1965 he joined the Gutai movement. [3] Yoshida began incorporating performance art into his practice while living in New York City. [4] His performances often incorporated a "synthesizer jacket," a garment the artist created from plexiglass and adorned with circuits and resembling his earlier sculptures. [5] The artist also wired speakers into panels that were worn around the wearer’s thighs. By operating the different switches on the jacket, sculptural garment emitted a series of different rhythmic electronic sounds. [6] Yoshida lived in New York City from 1970 to 1978 before returning to Japan where he continued to work and perform until his death in 2010. [3]
He was included in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Gutai Art Exhibitions at the Gutai Pinacotheca. [1] His piece Bisexual Flower was included in the Osaka World Expo 1970. [4] In 2013, Yoshida was included in Gutai: Splendid Playground exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum. [7]
Yoshida's works can be found in the collections of Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Hyogo, Japan; Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan; Takamatsu Municipal Museum, Kagawa, Japan; Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan; and National Museum of Modern Art, [8] Kyoto, Japan. [9] [10]
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