UNTITLED, 1958

Details

Yasuo Sumi (1925 - )
Untitled, 1958
Mixed media on net
Signed Sumi in Japanese and Y. Sumi in roman script
240 x 100cm.

Literature

Marco Franciolli Gutai: dipingere con il tempo e lo spazio [Gutai: Painting with Time and Space], exhibition catalogue, (Milan, 2010), p. 76-7

Exhibited

Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, 2010-11

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot should be marked with a red square in the printed catalogue and as such the lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse and can be collected as of Friday 17th October. Free storage will apply until 5pm on 29th October 2014.

Lot Essay

In 1957 Shozo Shimamoto wrote an essay for the Gutai journal titled Efude shokei ron [Killing the paintbrush] in which he argued that the paintbrush had for too long dominated and restricted paint. Gutai strived to release previously hidden elements within the paint by getting rid of the brush altogether. Therefore Yasuo Sumi, along with other artists, found many alternative and creative methods for the application of paint, such as these works on nets which exemplify how artists used materials distance themselves from the constraints of the canvas and brush.

See Ming Tiampo and Alexandra Munro, Gutai: Splendid Playground, exhibition catalogue, (Guggenheim Museum Publications, New York, 2013), p. 56-7.

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