Art This Week-Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga

At the Dallas Museum of Art
Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga
Gabriel Ritter Interview
Episode 237-March 31, 2015

This week, we visit the Dallas Museum of Art and speak with curator Gabriel Ritter, about the exhibition Between Action and the Unknown: The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga on view at the museum through July 19, 2015.
On the cutting room floor: One scene that was cut for time purposes featured Gabriel talking about the artistic paths Motonaga and Shiraga took in the years after the death of the Gutai movements founder, Jiro Yoshihara:
“I think with both of the artists you can really argue that into the 60s and into the 70s they were really trying to experiment more and define themselves, not necessarily within the umbrella of Gutai but the growing pains, how to figure out who Shiraga was…who Motonaga was…what defined them as individuals. For Shiraga, it was the pursuit of Buddhism, for Motonaga it becomes a transition to a more hard edge shape cartoon-y [style] that harkens back to his early work with illustration.”

Upcoming Programming:
Ei Arakawa performance
Wednesday, April 8, 6pm  
Dallas Museum of Art
Free and open to the public

Roundtable discussion: Koichi Kawasaki, Joan Kee, Gabriel Ritter, and James Rondeau
Saturday, May 2
The Warehouse, Dallas 
Free, RSVP required

For more information:
Glasstire-Falling Hard For a Japanese Painter (But Not the One You Think) by Christina Rees
Dallas Morning News-Dallas Museum of Art exhibition highlights two postwar Japanese artists by Rick Brettell
Arts and Culture Texas-Material versus Spirit by John Zotos
Info:
Some information on Sadamasa Motonaga can be found at the MOMA website here.
T Magazine (NYT blog)-A great article on Kazuo Shiraga can be found here.
Notes:
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 N Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201

And thanks to Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden for letting us film in the garden!

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