"In Word and In Action: The Abstract Calligraphy of Shiryu Morita: 1912-1999" Exhibition
Walter Randel Gallery
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A founder of the Bokujin Group in 1952, an important association of Japanese calligraphers, Morita was born in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He lectured and traveled extensively world-wide during his long career. Alexandra Munroe, The Guggenheim Museum’s Senior Curator of Asian Art, wrote in "Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky," “Among the most influential and innovative of the postwar avant-garde traditional arts groups was Bokujin-Kai (Ink Human Society) which was founded by five Kyoto-area calligraphers including Morita Shiryu.”
More than 15 monochrome works by this revolutionary artist whose reevaluation and innovation expanded the aesthetic and philosophical principles of calligraphy to a global, expressionistic art form will be on view in this one-person exhibition, with paintings which range from the “readable” to those so abstract that they appear as action personified and memorialized in paint to evoke the meaning of the word.
[Image: Shiryu Morita "En (Deep Pool)" (1963) Ink and paint on paper 36 x 71 in.]
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from June 11, 2010 to July 31, 2010