Paula Cooper Gallery
465 W 23rd St
212.255.1105
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Akira Kanayama, Work, Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery
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Jan 17, 2008 – Feb 16, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Two of Japan's best-known artists, Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama, passed away in recent years. Original members of the Osaka-based avant-garde group Gutai Art Association (and, later, husband and wife), Tanaka and Kanayama are rarely shown in the US. Paula Cooper's exhibition is an indispensable introduction to their early work. Best-known for her 1956 Electric Dress of colored lightbulbs and wires, Tanaka is represented here by an early fabric piece, Work — three off-white cotton sheets made of smaller, patched-together pieces. Kanayama's watercolors and ink drawings from the early '50s are similarly austere, presaging the minimalist painters' conceptual concerns.
