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Tatsuo Ikeda:

Brahman

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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Fergus McCaffrey is pleased to present Tatsuo Ikeda: BRAHMAN, opening at the gallery’s Tokyo location on Saturday, April 2, 2022. 

Concurrent with the artist’s participation in the 2022 edition of the Venice Biennale, as well as the much lauded group exhibition, Surrealism Beyond Borders, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (October 11, 2021 – January 30, 2022) and Tate Modern, London (February 24 – August 29, 2022), this solo Tokyo show features twenty paintings on paper from 1975–1980 from the artist’s seminal series: BRAHMAN. 

Tatsuo Ikeda (1928–2020) was born in Saga Prefecture, Japan, in 1928. At the age of fifteen, he was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service as a kamikaze pilot. Spared by the ending of World War II, Ikeda moved to Tokyo and attended Tama Art University where he became engaged in Tara Okamoto and Kiyoteru Hanada’s Avant-garde Art Study Group. While the artist’s work of the 1950s engaged politically through reportage and satire, the following decade saw a break from social concerns as he began to explore new motifs and consider the relationship between human consciousness and the body, with series, Elliptical Space (1963–64), and, Toy World (1966–70). 

By 1973, Ikeda adopted and committed to a contemplative and philosophical approach to his practice—embarking on his historic BRAHMAN series, centered on a visual myth about the beginnings of the universe.

Portrait of the Artist © Gallery 58, Tokyo

With BRAHMAN, the artist found complete emancipation from the social causes that pervaded his earlier work to embrace a state of eternal truth and bliss occupied by genderless embryonic forms in infinite space. Adding airbrush to his repertory, he produced fantastically rendered paintings addressing Hindu philosophy, biological forms, and sexuality. Narrating his own story of genesis, turning his attention inward, the artist explored the metaphysical bonds that underlie and unify the universe—defining these paintings as a “wormhole connecting the inner and outer worlds.” 

Completed in 1988, the series consists of ten chapters, produced over the course of fifteen years. BRAHMAN marked a pivotal moment of visual and philosophical innovation for Ikeda—as his journey to understanding the unfolding events of the universe and the ever-changing array of lived experience. 

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Written By The Artist

Clashing into “Things” of a New World
by Tatsuo Ikeda (1956)

The following is an example of a simple note that records, step-by-step, the process of my creative practice, while revealing the various issues (questions, mistakes, accuracies) that sometimes arise during my creative process…
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新しい世界の「物体」にぶつかる

前置き 以下は、わたしの創作実践の過程を、順を追って記録し た簡単な手記の一例だが、これによってわたしの創作方法に関する 色々な問題(疑問や、誤りや、正しさ)をひき出していただければ 幸いである…
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GALLERY

Remembering The Artist

TATSUO IKEDA (1928–2020)

It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Tatsuo Ikeda (1928–2020). The acclaimed Japanese artist…
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池田龍雄(1928–2020)

池田龍雄(1928–2020) 氏がご逝去されました。謹んでお悔やみを申し上げます…
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