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Shusaku Arakawa, Arakawa at Dayton's, 1973

Shusaku Arakawa

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Shusaku Arakawa

Arakawa at Dayton's, 1973

Rare Vintage Dayton's Gallery Offset Lithograph Poster. Unframed.
(This is the ORIGINAL; not a later re-print)
29 × 22 in
73.7 × 55.9 cm
 

This is one of those instances where the poster from an exhibition may be more rare than the prints sold in it, since we have not seen another one like this rare 1973 anywhere else in the world at this time. Rarely seen vintage 1973 Dayton's Gallery poster. Unframed and in excellent condition. The venerable Dayton's Gallery in Minneapolis, which famously hosted exhibitions by Leo Castelli Gallery's artists as well as historic Rauschenberg shows, is no longer in existence - and posters like this from the early 1970s are extremely elusive and rarely seen on the market. Highly collectible. Thought to have been published in an edition of less than 100.

Shusaku Arakawa (荒川 修作 Arakawa Shūsaku, July 6, 1936 – May 18, 2010) who spoke of himself as an “eternal outsider” and “abstractionist of the distant future,” first studied mathematics and medicine at the University of Tokyo, and art at the Musashino Art University. He was a member of Tokyo’s Neo-Dadaism Organizers, a precursor to The Neo-Dada movement. Arakawa’s early works were first displayed in the infamous Yomiuri Independent Exhibition, a watershed event for postwar Japanese avant-garde art. Arakawa arrived in New York in 1961 with fourteen dollars in his pocket and a telephone number for Marcel Duchamp, whom he phoned from the airport and over time formed a close friendship. He started using diagrams within his paintings as philosophical propositions. Jean-Francois Lyotard has said of Arakawa’s work that it “makes us think through the eyes,” and Hans-Georg Gadamer has described it as transforming “the usual constancies of orientation into a strange, enticing game—a game of continually thinking out.” Quoting Paul Celan, Gadamer also wrote of the work: "There are songs to sing beyond the human." Arthur Danto has found Arakawa to be “the most philosophical of contemporary artists." For his part, Arakawa has declared: “Painting is only an exercise, never more than that.” Arakawa and Madeline Gins are co-founders of the Reversible Destiny Foundation, an organization dedicated to the use of architecture to extend the human lifespan. They have co-authored books, including Reversible Destiny, which is the catalogue of their Guggenheim exhibition, Architectural Body (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and Making Dying Illegal (New York: Roof Books, 2006).

Measurements

Height:   22.00
Width:   29.00