[Update, Feb 28] This event has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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This is the first solo Tokyo exhibition by painter Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008), a key member of Japan’s radical post-war Gutai group and whose innovative, action painting-like work is currently enjoying renewed acclaim. In the mid-1950s Shiraga devised a method of painting that involved him hanging from the ceiling on a rope, and using his feet to cover a canvas laid out on the floor below with wildly expressive splatters and strokes. As this sizeable exhibition shows, following the 1972 dissolution of the Gutai group, Shiraga continued to express himself through the dripping and oozing qualities inherent to paint itself, in the process exploring questions of spirituality and human potential.