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Jiro Takamatsu, Shadow, 1989/1997. © The Estate of Jiro Takamatsu, courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Pace Gallery, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photo: Richard Gary.
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NEW YORK, NY.- Pace will present its first exhibition of Jiro Takamatsua profoundly influential artist, theorist, and teacher who emerged in postwar Japan in the early 1960ssince its representation of the artists estate this year.
From September 20 to November 2, the presentation at the gallerys 540 West 25th Street flagship in New York will focus on Takamatsus Shadow and Perspective conceptsthroughout his entire oeuvre, Takamatsu used the term concept to denote certain ideas or phenomena. Bringing together a selection of his paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects dating from 1966 to 1997, this exhibition will showcase his inventive, deeply philosophical practice and his important role in the development of Conceptual Art.
A prolific artist who produced thousands of works over the course of his 40-year career, Takamatsu worked across painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance, exploring questions about perception, space, existence, and absence. Early in his practice, during the 1960s, he staged performative interventions in public spaces around Tokyo as part of the artist collective Hi Red Center, liberating art from its traditional context and shaking the foundations of the Japanese art world at the time. Presenting politically minded actions in public spaces throughout postwar Tokyo, Hi Red Center sought to dissolve boundaries between art and lifeproducing what the group called a descent into the everydaythrough experimental and unorthodox approaches to making. It was also during this decade, in 1968, that Takamatsu represented Japan at the 34th Venice Biennale, cementing his status as a key figure within the international avant-garde.
Viewing the act of creating as an intensely intellectual endeavor, Takamatsu adopted a somewhat reclusive, solitary lifestyle as part of his practice. Grounded by his thoughts about and observations of the world around him, the artists highly conceptual works often examine ideas about reality and the self, matter and space, and presence and absence. Producing diverse bodies of work simultaneously, he examined these concepts through various mediums and forms. In one of Takamatsus best-known bodies of workhis iconic Shadow paintings, which he created from 1964 up until his death in 1998he explored questions of perception and dimension as they relate to our experience of matter. In these illusionistic paintings depicting shadows of figures and objects, he presents a visual summation of the complex relationships between that which is at once existent and nonexistent, tangible and intangible, in both physical and metaphysical terms.
A selection of the artists Shadow paintings and drawings will figure in Paces upcoming presentation in New York, alongside works from his lesser-known Perspective series. Takamatsu began creating his Perspective paintings, drawings, and sculptures in the mid-1960s in tandem with his Shadow works, and the relationship between these two concepts hinges on the illusionistic potential of space, when perspective is bent by human intervention. While many of his two-dimensional, mathematically minded Perspective works depict silhouetted figures occupying geometric structures within different planes, some of these compositions are devoid of figures, focusing instead on the ways that combinations of shapes can imply interiority, exteriority, and depth. Several material objects from the Perspective series on view in the gallerys show will shed light on the ways in which Takamatsu extended these inquiries into three dimensions, imbuing his painted abstractions with a physicality that makes them all the more surreal.
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