KITASONO KATUE: SURREALIST
POET
LACMA Los Angeels County Museum of Art
organized by Hollis Goodall
Pavilion for Japanese Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard (at Fairfax Avenue) - Los Angeles
August 3, 2013 – December 1, 2013
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of leading avant-garde artist of his generation in Japan, Kitasono Katue (Japan, 1902–1978).
Kitasono Katue: Surrealist Poet highlights over eighty original photographs, paintings, and drawings, as well as many rare publications drawn from the collection of Los Angelesbased poet and scholar, John Solt.
Among the works in the exhibition are all of Kitasono’s poetry collections, including his first, Album of Whiteness (1929).
The exhibition, organized by Hollis Goodall, LACMA curator for Japanese Art, portrays Kitasono as a leading participant in visual as well as literary avant-garde movements during both pre- and post-war eras.
A pioneering avant-garde spirit, Kitasono made a priority of finding common ground with poets, artists, and writers in Europe and the Americas, from whom he initially sought stimulus to develop his early modes of poetry. First entranced by the modern art movements of Dadaism and Surrealism, he also thoroughly absorbed the ideas of Futurism, Cubism, and, in the postwar era, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He would introduce elements of each into his poetic mode.
Image: Kitasono Katue, La Disparition d’Honoré Subrac (オノレ・シュウブラック氏の減形) (1960), gelatin silver print. Collection of John Solt. © Hashimoto Sumiko. Used with permission.
LACMA Los Angeels County Museum of Art
organized by Hollis Goodall
Pavilion for Japanese Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard (at Fairfax Avenue) - Los Angeles
August 3, 2013 – December 1, 2013
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of leading avant-garde artist of his generation in Japan, Kitasono Katue (Japan, 1902–1978).
Kitasono Katue: Surrealist Poet highlights over eighty original photographs, paintings, and drawings, as well as many rare publications drawn from the collection of Los Angelesbased poet and scholar, John Solt.
Among the works in the exhibition are all of Kitasono’s poetry collections, including his first, Album of Whiteness (1929).
The exhibition, organized by Hollis Goodall, LACMA curator for Japanese Art, portrays Kitasono as a leading participant in visual as well as literary avant-garde movements during both pre- and post-war eras.
A pioneering avant-garde spirit, Kitasono made a priority of finding common ground with poets, artists, and writers in Europe and the Americas, from whom he initially sought stimulus to develop his early modes of poetry. First entranced by the modern art movements of Dadaism and Surrealism, he also thoroughly absorbed the ideas of Futurism, Cubism, and, in the postwar era, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. He would introduce elements of each into his poetic mode.
Image: Kitasono Katue, La Disparition d’Honoré Subrac (オノレ・シュウブラック氏の減形) (1960), gelatin silver print. Collection of John Solt. © Hashimoto Sumiko. Used with permission.
