Jirō Takamatsu (高松 次郎, Takamatsu Jirō, 20 February 1936 – 25 June 1998[1]) was one of the most important postwar Japanese artists. Takamatsu used photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance to fundamentally investigate the philosophical and material conditions of art. Takamatsu's practice was dedicated to the critique of cognition and perception, through the rendering and variation of morphological devices, such as shadow, tautology, appropriation, perceptual and perspective distortion and representation. Takamatsu's conceptual work can be understood through his notions of the Zero Dimension, which renders an object or form to observe its fundamental geometrical components.[citation needed] Takamatsu isolated these smallest constituent elements, asserting that these elements produce reality, or existence. For Takamatsu the elementary particle represents “the ultimate of division” and also “emptiness itself,” like the a line within a painting—there appears to be nothing more beyond the line itself.[citation needed] Yet, Takamatsu's end goal was not to just prove the presence or object-ness of these elements, but rather to use them as a way to challenge and prove the limits of human perception, leading to his fixation on “absence” or the things that are unobservable.[2]
The impact of Takamatsu's practice also has to be considered in terms of his contributions to the avant garde art scenes through his individual practice and work with collectives, as well as the legibility of his work in the discourse of conceptual art and thus the broader international art world.
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^Hosaka, Kenjiro. Takamatsu Jiro : mysteries (Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2014), 12.
JirōTakamatsu (高松 次郎, TakamatsuJirō, 20 February 1936 – 25 June 1998) was one of the most important postwar Japanese artists. Takamatsu used photography...
Corse, David Lynch, Tomoharu Murakami, Peter Shire, Rosha Yaghmai, JiroTakamatsu, Anthony Hernandez, Mika Tajima, Mary Obering, Liza Ryan, Hank Willis...
apprenticed with JiroTakamatsu, a contemporary artist making art in Japan during the 1960s and 1970s. Shoji worked for three years in Takamatsu's studio making...
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Japanese artist group Hi-Red Center. Along with Natsuyuki Nakanishi and JiroTakamatsu of Hi-Red Center and the sculptor Hiroshi Kobatake, Kosugi participated...
from Tokyo University of the Arts, where he focused on oil painting. JirōTakamatsu, who would become an important collaborator, was a classmate of Nakanishi’s...
’” In 1963, Akasegawa formed the art collective Hi-Red Center with JirōTakamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakanishi. The group's name was formed from the first...
Euro-American-centric art theory. Another influential teacher was the artist JiroTakamatsu, whose illusionistic paintings and sculpture were central to the development...
they viewed Francis; Taeko Tomioka, Toru Takemitsu, Shuzo Takiguchi, JiroTakamatsu, and Sazo Idemitsu. This video was conceived out of Idemitsu's own frustrations...
Schumacher Charles Simonds Ted Stamm Kenneth Snelson Ursula Schultze-Bluhm T JiroTakamatsu Andrei Tarkovsky Caroline Tisdall FIU George Trakas Peter Tuma Takis...
the time the Tama Art University faculty included, Yoshishige Saito, JiroTakamatsu, Tono Yoshiaki, Lee U-Fan, Nakahara Yusuke, and Haryu Ichiro. His works...
1962 also saw the Yamanote Line Incident, by Natsuyuki Nakanishi, JirōTakamatsu and Hiroshi Kawani. Tone and Kosugi also participated, although they...
develop a robust exhibition program, she led on exhibitions including JiroTakamatsu: The Temperature of Sculpture (2017), Aleksandra Domanović: Votives...
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participated to underscore the frequency of "tricky art" across mediums: JiroTakamatsu, Nobuo Sekine, Yoshinori Suzuki, et al. 1970 marked an important year...
studied under influential artist-teachers Yoshishige Saitō and JiroTakamatsu. Takamatsu’s illusionistic paintings and sculpture were central to the development...
work is photographically conveyed. The work was positively reviewed by JiroTakamatsu in the July 1971 issue of Bijutsu Techō. From around 1970 onward Hikosaka...
Kawara, Yutaka Matsuzawa, the Shizuoka-based artist group Genshoku, and JiroTakamatsu’s stone-based work. Furthermore, Horikawa had encountered Robert Smithson’s...
Enokura exhibited in Tokyo Biennale ’70 – Between Man and Matter, with JiroTakamatsu and Susumu Koshimizu. World-renowned artists such as Richard Serra,...
Hans Haacke, Michio Horikawa, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz and JiroTakamatsu. The biennial was Matsuzawa's first international exposure in his professional...
renowned painter Takeshi Hayashi. His classmates included Tetsumi Kudо̄, Jirо̄Takamatsu, and Natsuyuki Nakanishi, who would become fellow members of the Neo-Dada...
as pitch. Jirō Tamiya as Yutaka Asahina Junko Kanō as Masako Usami Eiji Funakoshi as Kimio Hiraki Reiko Shirai as Aiko Hiraki Hideo Takamatsu as Toru Onoda...
more self-contained works. Notable works in the exhibition included TakamatsuJirō's Chairs and Table in Perspective (遠近法の椅子とテーブル, 1966), a sculptural set...
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