Tadaaki Kuwayama "Paintings from the 1970s"
Gary Snyder Project Space
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Gary snyder Projectspace continues its focus on historically important art of the 1960s and 1970s with an exhibition of paintings from the 1970s by Tadaaki Kuwayama, whose work has been associated with minimalist and reductive painting since his first one-person shows at the seminal green gallery in 1961 and 1962. kuwayama was included in the 1966 Systemic Painting exhibition at the solomon r. guggenheim museum, and the 1979 Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition at the albright-knox.
tadaaki kuwayama was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1932. he received his B.f.a. in 1956 from the tokyo National University of fine arts and music. in 1958 he moved to New York city, where he continues to live and work. retrospective exhibitions of kuwayama’s work are scheduled for 2010 at the tokyo contemporary art museum and the Nagoya city museum in Japan.
for this exhibition, kuwayama has chosen eleven paintings from the 1970s and designed an exhibition to complement the modern design of the new Gary snyder Projectspace. the paintings shown will be illustrated along with installation photographs in the accompanying
catalogue, which will include an essay by Peter frank.
[Image : Tadaaki Kuwayama "TK5182-3/4’75" (1975) metallic paint on canvas, 82¾ × 82¾ in.]
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Schedule
from March 07, 2008 to May 25, 2008