Jiro Takamatsu
- Introduction
- Jiro Takamatsu (高松 次郎, Takamatsu Jirō, 20 February 1936 – 25 June 1998) became one of the most influential and important artists making art in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Working in the fertile ground between Dada, Surrealism, and Minimalism for almost four decades, Takamatsu used photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance to create fundamental investigations into the philosophical and material origins of art. Born in 1936 in Tokyo, Takamatsu formed the collective Hi Red Center in 1963 with Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi, participating in actions carried out in Tokyo that sought to eliminate the boundary between art and life. In 1964, he began making his signature Shadow Paintings (which he continued until the end of his life), a critical inquiry into the formal genesis of painting. In 1972–73, he created the seminal series Photograph of Photograph, which raised questions regarding issues of appropriation and memory. Between 1968 and 1972, he taught at Tama Art University, Tokyo, and was a key figure in the development of the Mono-ha movement. In 1966 the Tokyo Gallery held his first solo exhibition and later presented seven more solo shows between 1969 and 1987. He represented Japan at the Venice Biennale (Carlo Cardozzo Prize, 1968) and exhibited at the Paris Biennial (1969); São Paulo Biennial (1973); and Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany (1977). He was awarded the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Print Biennial (1972). Numerous major retrospectives have occurred at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (1999); Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan (2000); Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo (2004); Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (2004); and Henry Moore Institute, UK (2016). His work has been included at group shows at the Guggenheim Museum (1971); Centre Pompidou, Paris (1986); Yokohoma Art Museum, Japan (1994); and Guggenheim Museum SoHo (1994).
- Wikidata
- Q11670443
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Painter, Sculptor
- Names
- Jirō Takamatsu, Jiro Takamatsu
- Ulan
- 500123782
Exhibitions
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413: Touching the Void
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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410: At the Border of Art and Life
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 20, 2020
MoMA
Collection gallery
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From the Collection:
1960–1969 Mar 26, 2016–Mar 19, 2017
MoMA
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Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
Nov 18, 2012–Feb 25, 2013
MoMA
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Photography Rotation 8
May 13, 2011–Mar 12, 2012
MoMA
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Canned Mystery 1964
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Canned Mystery 1964
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Canned Mystery 1964
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Canned Mystery 1964
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Canned Mystery 1964
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Prototype for Bundle of Events 1965
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Bundle of Events 1965
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Jiro Takamatsu Shadow 1965
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Street Cleaning Event (1964), performed during Fluxfest Presents Hi Red Center Street Cleaning Event, Grand Army Plaza, New York, June 11, 1966 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu ! 1966
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Hi Red Center, Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Jiro Takamatsu Bundle of Events 1966
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Jiro Takamatsu Shadow 1965-66
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Jiro Takamatsu Perspective 1968
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Jiro Takamatsu Perspective 1968
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Jiro Takamatsu Book designs: "Perspective" 1969
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Jiro Takamatsu Slack of Net 1969
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Jiro Takamatsu Eraser 1970
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Jiro Takamatsu Oneness of Paper 1972
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Jiro Takamatsu Book designs "Rubbing" 1972
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Jiro Takamatsu Book designs "Rubbing" 1972
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Jiro Takamatsu Book designs "Rubbing" 1972
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Jiro Takamatsu Photograph of Photograph 1973
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Jiro Takamatsu Tape 1973
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Jiro Takamatsu Rusty Ground 1977
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Jiro Takamatsu Space in Two Dimensions 1979
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Jiro Takamatsu Space in Two Dimensions 1979
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Jiro Takamatsu Untitled study for a painting 1982
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Jiro Takamatsu Untitled study for a painting 1982
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Jiro Takamatsu Untitled study for a painting 1982
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Jiro Takamatsu Untitled study for a painting 1982
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Jiro Takamatsu Overlapping 1983
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Jiro Takamatsu Overlapping 1983
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Jiro Takamatsu Form 1983
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Jiro Takamatsu Perspective n.d.
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