Tsuruko Yamazaki - Artist Info

About Tsuruko Yamazaki

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Tsuruko Yamasaki
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    Tsuruko Yamazaki (1925–2019), ARTFORUM magazine, June 13, 2019

    Tsuruko Yamazaki—a founding member of the Japanese avant-garde collective the Gutai Art Association, which was formed by innovative multidisciplinary and performance artists in 1954—has died. Take Ninagawa gallery in Japan confirmed the news.

    Active in the group until its disbanding in 1972, Yamazaki participated in all of Gutai’s major exhibitions, including the Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition at Ashiya Park in 1956; the sixth Gutai Art Exhibition at Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1958; and the international group show “Nul 1965” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
    Born in 1925 in Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan, Yamazaki graduated from the University of the...

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