Tadaaki Kuwayama

This work has been kindly donated by the artist

Born in 1932 in Nagoya, Japan, Tadaaki Kuwayama graduated from Tokyo University of Arts, after studying nihonga, a traditional form of Japanese painting. Following a move to New York in 1958, Kuwayama began to experiment with alternative types of pigments. Rejecting traditional Japanese painting and American Abstract Expressionism, he developed his own style of minimalism, distinguished by vibrant fields of paint and monochromatic canvases seen in the present lot. 

Tadaaki Kuwayama has been featured in various solo and group exhibitions. Among them are The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York (including the renowned 1966 exhibition, Systemic Painting); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.