Shusaku Arakawa

Shusaku Arakawa was a Japanese artist and architect, and a founding member of the Neo Dadaism Organizers. Renowned for his inventive architectural style and conceptual paintings and prints, Arakawa was one of the earliest practitioners of the international conceptual-art movement of the 1960s. He attended Musashino Art University in Tokyo before moving to New York in 1961, where he met American poet and artist Madeline Gins, with whom he established a collaborative creative partnership that would span over four decades. Together they created a suite of eighty canvases, the series The Mechanism of Meaning, that explored human consciousness and “solving the problem of art.” His work infused art with... more.