THE JAPAN FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANT IN SUPPORT OF GUTAI: SPLENDID PLAYGROUND

The Guggenheim is tremendously grateful to The Japan Foundation for generous support of Gutai: Splendid Playground, the first North American museum retrospective devoted to the highly influential artist group and artistic movement known as Gutai. Emerging in early 1950s postwar Japan, Gutai is among the most significant international avant-garde movements to develop outside Western centers of modern art, anticipating trends and concerns that became central to artistic discourse around the globe in the 1960s and beyond. Building upon the achievements of previous shows presented under the auspices of the Guggenheim’s Asian Art program, Gutai: Splendid Playground showcases approximately 120 objects that demonstrate the group’s radical experimentation across a range of media and styles and reflect the full trajectory of the Gutai movement from circa 1954 to 1972. The exhibition is enriched by a 316-page catalogue and, among other exhibition expenses, funding from The Japan Foundation is supporting this scholarly publication, representing the first comprehensive history and interpretation of Gutai published in English. Cocurated by Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, and Ming Tiampo, Guest Curator and Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa, Gutai: Splendid Playground is on view from February 15 through May 8, 2013.

Special Exhibitions and Collections-Based Shows in Need of Funding

Zarina: Paper Like Skin
January 25–April 21, 2013

Gutai: Splendid Playground
February 15–May 8, 2013

James Turrell
June 21–September 25, 2013

Christopher Wool
October 25, 2013–January 22, 2014

Sackler Center For Arts Education Exhibitions

A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian House and Pavilion
July 27, 2012–February 13, 2013

Installation view: Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, June 24–September 28, 2011. Photo: Roger Kisby © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York