MOTONAGA - SEM

MOTONAGA
SADAMASA
(1922 - 2011)
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n 1955, Sadamasa Motonaga crée ses premiers
objets abstraits, n’ayant réalisé jusqu’ici que des
œuvres bidimensionnelles. En 1953, son tableau Kiiro no
rafu (Nu jaune, 1953) reçoit le prix Holbein à l’Exposition d’art de la ville d’Ashiya et attire sur lui l’attention
de l’artiste d’avant-garde Jirô Yoshihara, qui l’invite à
s’associer à l’Exposition expérimentale d’art moderne
en plein air comme défi au soleil du plein été, organisée
en 1955 par le mouvement Gutaï au parc d’Ashiya. La
contribution de Motonaga consiste à suspendre à des
branches d’arbres des tubes en vinyle remplis d’eau
colorée.
À l’invitation de la Japan Society, Motonaga passe l’année 1966-1967 à New York, puis se rend en Europe. À
son retour au Japon, il réalise – à l’acrylique et avec des
techniques de pulvérisation – des abstractions lyriques
qui le conduisent dans les années 1970 vers un style
plus fantaisiste, fait de couleurs vives et saturées et de
titres humoristiques. Ces œuvres relèvent de ce que l’on
appelle le Funny Art. À la même époque, il s’oriente vers
des pratiques très diverses comme l’estampe, le cinéma,
la poterie, l’illustration, la peinture d’automobiles, la tapisserie et le design de sièges.
Durant toute sa carrière, Motonaga a reçu de multiples
prix et distinctions : en 1983, il remporte le Grand Prix
de l’art japonais ; en 1988, il est nommé par la France
chevalier de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres ; en 1991, le
gouvernement japonais lui décerne la médaille d’honneur du Ruban violet pour l’ensemble de sa carrière
académique et artistique. Parmi ses expositions personnelles récentes, citons celle du Musée d’art contemporain d’Hiroshima en 2003, et du Musée d’art préfectoral de Mie en 2009. À titre personnel et en tant que
membre du mouvement Gutaï, il a participé à de très
nombreuses expositions internationales, notamment à
la Biennale de Venise en 1993 et en 2009.
Par la suite, Motonaga expérimentera diverses variations
sur son œuvre aquatique et réalisera des performances
avec de la fumée, tout en continuant à créer des tableaux
et des objets tridimensionnels. En 1958, inspiré en partie par le tarashikomi – technique de peinture japonaise
traditionnelle qui consiste à appliquer une couche de
pigments sur une couche encore humide – Motonaga
produit ses premiers tableaux créés par des interactions
aléatoires. Sur des toiles inclinées, sur lesquelles un dessin sous-jacent a été esquissé, il déverse la peinture sur
les contours des éléments formels de la composition et
réalise des œuvres animées qui lui vaudront d’être reconnu par le mouvement informel international et feront de
lui un des artistes représentatifs de l’avant-garde japonaise d’après la guerre.
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Biographie
1922
1938
1955
1971
1971
2011
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Born in Ueno City, Japan
Graduated from Mie Prefecture Ueno Commercial School
Joined Gutai Art Association
Art Exhibition of Japan
Left Gutai Art Association
Died in Amagasaki, Japan
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Received Prize for Excellence at 6th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan
Received National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Prize at 10th Contemporary
Received 2nd Art and Culture Promotion Association’s Award, 15th Japan Art
Grand Prix from Shincho Foundation, and Grand Prix at 4th International
Received Hyogo Prefectural cultural Award
Awarded Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
Received Medal with Purple Ribbon and Osaka Citizen’s Testimonial
Awarded Osaka Art Prize
Received Kobe Shimbun Peace Prize
Received Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette
Received Culture merit Award of Mie Prefecture
Récompenses
1964
1986
1988
1991
1992
1996
1997
2002
Expositions individuelles (selection)
2009
2006
2005
2003
2002
1991
1985
1977
1971
1963
1961
• Sadamasa Motonaga, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu City, Japan
• Motonaga Sadamasa, Nerima Museum of Arts, Tokyo, Japan
• Motonaga Sadamasa, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Nagano, Japan
• Motonaga Sadamasa, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
• Motonaga Sadamasa, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan
• Motonaga Sadamasa, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan
• Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
• Asaki Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
• Ginza Wako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
• Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
• Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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Expositions de groupe (selection)
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
2004
2002
2001
1999
1997
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
• Gutai: The Spirit of an Era, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
• Explosion! Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Nul = 0 - Dutch avant-garde in an international context, 1961-1966, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands
• Gutai: dipingere con il tempo e lo spazio, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
• Collection 3. Japanese Art 1950–2010, NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
• Japanese Art 1950–2010, The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania
• Gutai: Painting with Time and Space, Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano, CH
• Under Each Other’s Spell: The Gutai and New York, UB Art Galleries - University of Buf-
falo, Buffalo, USA
• Japanese Oil Painting from the Collections, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan
• La Biennale di Venezia, 53a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Fare Mondi, Venice, Italy
• Under Each Other’s Spell: Gutai and New York, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Cen-
ter, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition)
• Weltanschauung Visione Del Mondo, Art Forum Würth Capena, Capena, Italy
• Motonaga Sadamasa and Nakatsuji Etsuko: the World of Picture Books, Itami City Museum of Art, Itami, Japan
• Artempo - Where Times Becomes Art, Museo Fortuny, Venise, Italy
• Zero. Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
• Zéro, Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
• Resounding Spirit - Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s, Samek Art Gallery, Lewis
burg, USA
• Gutai 1954-1972, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
• Artists of Gutai Art Association, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
• Le Tribù dell’Arte, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
• Gutai, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
• Torino Parigi New York Osaka. Tapié. Un Art Autre, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
• Japanese Art, 1960s First Phase: Japanese Summer 1960-64 ‘I Don’t Give a Damn Any
more!, Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito, Japan
• Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Guggenheim Museum, New
York, USA (Travelling Exhibition)
• Gutai II: 1959-1965, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan
• Gutai III: 1965-1972, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan
• La Biennale di Venezia, 45a Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Passagio ad Oriente, Venice, Italy
• Challenge of Art After the War: Jiro Yoshihara and the Gutai Group, Ehime Museum of Art, Matsuyama, Japan
• Gutai 1955/56: Restarting Point for Japanese Contemporary Art, Penrose Institute of Contemporary Arts, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• Artists of Gutai Art Association, Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
• Gutai I: 1954-1958, Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Ashiya, Japan
• Outdoor Exhibition Revisited, Ashiya Park, Ashiya, Japan
• Gutai Japanische Avantgarde 1954-1965, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
• Adventurers of Paintings ‘Gutai’, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
• Gutai: The Avant-Garde Group Unfinished, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
• Giappone all’avanguardia. Il Gruppo Gutai negli anni Cinquanta, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
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1986
1985
1984
1980
1979
1978
1976
1975
1971
1970
1969
1968
1967
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
• Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
• Jiro Yoshihara and Gutai, Ashiya Civic Center, Ashiya, Japan
• Action and Emotion, Paintings of the ‘50s, Informel, Gutai, Cobra, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
• Grupo Gutai: Pintura y Acción, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
• Series of Kansai Artists: Motonaga Sadamasa and Shiraga Kazuo, Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
• Artists Today 2: Takamatsu Jiro and Motonaga Sadamasa, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
• Jiro Yoshihara and Today’s Aspects of Gutai, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
• Beauty of Space, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
• Eighteen Years of Gutai Art, Osaka Prefectural Gallery, Osaka, Japan
• Four Abstract Artists, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan
• Aspetti dell’Informale. Mostra storica Internazionale, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, Italy
• Exhibition at the entrance of Expo ’70 Midori Pavilion by the Gutai Group, Midori Pavi
lion, Osaka, Japan
• An Exhibition of Prints by Eight Gutai Artists, Gallery Iteza, Kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• Spazi astratti. Dall’intuizione alla concettualizzazione, Galleria d’Arte Cortina, Milan, Italy
• 1st Hiroshima Renaissance Art Exhibition, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
• 20th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
• 21st Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
• Contemporary Art Exhibition Only in the Night, Miyazaki Kanko Hotel, Miyazaki, Japan
• Gutai Group Exhibition, Heide Hildebrand Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria
• 19th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• 1st Japan Art Festival, Union Carbide Building, New York, USA
• NUL 1966 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd zesenzestig), International Gallery Orez, The Hague, The Netherlands
• 2ème Salon International des Galeries Pilotes Lausanne, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Art Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland
• 17th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Yokohama, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• Moderne Malerei aus Japan, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
• NUL 1965 Art Exhibition (Nul Negentienhonderd vijfenzestig), Stedelijk Museum, Ams
terdam, The Netherlands
• The New Japanese Painters and Sculptures, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition)
• 15th Gutai Art Exhibition, Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan
• 16th Gutai Art Exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
• Groupe Gutai, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
• 14th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
• Contemporary Japanese Painting and Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
• 12th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
• 13th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
• Exposition d’Art Moderne, Grand Palais, Paris, France
• 11th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
• Strutture e Stile, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
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1961
1960
1959
1958
1957
1956
1955
• Don’t Worry, the Moon Won’t Fall Down: Gutai Art and Morita Modern Dance, Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan
• The Continuité et Avant-garde au Japon, International Center of Aesthetic Research, Turin, Italy
• 10th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• XII Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Palazzo del Centro del Mobile, Lissone, Italy
• The International Sky Festival, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
• 9th Gutai Art Exhibition, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan
• Four Japanese Artists, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
• Arte Nuova, Esposizione Internazionale di pittura e scultura, Circolo degli Artisti in Palazzo Graneri, Turin, Italy
• 8th Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• The Fifteen Japanese Contemporary Artists Recommended by Tapié, Gendai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• XI Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Palazzo del Centro del Mobile, Lissone, Italy
• 2nd Gutai Art on the Stage, Asahi Hall, Osaka, Japan
• International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Takashimaya Department Store, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• Gutai Small Works Exhibition (later known as 5th Gutai Art Exhibition), Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan
• The Gutai Group Exhibition (later know as 6th Gutai Art Exhibition), Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA (Travelling Exhibition)
• 3rd Gutai Art Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
• Gutai Art on the Stage, Sankei Hall, Osaka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
• 4th Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan
• One Day Only Outdoor Exhibition (also known as the Ruins Exhibition), Mukogawa River, Amagasaki, Japan
• Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition, Ashiya Park, Ashiya, Japan
• 2nd Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan
• Experimental Outdoor Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Midsummer Sun, Ashiya Park, Ashiya, Japan
• 1st Gutai Art Exhibition, Ohara Hall, Tokyo, Japan
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UNTITLED, 1965
96 x 74 cm
Lacquer & oil on canvas
Signed ‘S Motonaga’ and dated ‘65’ in the lower right
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Exposition GUTAI à la Galerie SEM ART
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