Shuzo TAKIGUCHI Exhibition - III
-Shuzo TAKIGUCHI & Marcel DUCHAMP-

November 5 Wed. - November 22 Sat. 2014
GALLERY OPEN ON ALL DAYS

This exhibition is on Shuzo TAKIGUCHI, the artist whom Toki-no-Wasuremono has chosen to be the core of our events in 2014. As we have already hosted his exhibition twice in January and March, this is our third exhibition.

Today, Marcel Duchamp is referred as the great vangard of modern art. He is regarded to be the origin of various art movements during and after 1960s such as neo dada, pop art, kinetic art, minimal art and coneptual art. TAKIGUCHI has showed deep interest in DUCHAMP whilst in the 1930s before such reputations were established, and discussed about him time after time.

Releasing his first essay "Marcel Duchamp" in 1938 in the magazine "Mizue", TAKIGUCHI mentioned DUCAMP in the end of essay series "Lives of unique artists" published in the magazine "Geijyutsu Shincho" in 1955, and also wrote "Duchamp's Rotoreliefs" for the magazine "Bijyutu Techo" in 1956. Whilst traveling across Europe in 1958, TAKIGUCHI was introduced to DUCHAMP when he visited Dali. Since then there has been a direct communication between two artists.

During 1960s, TAKIGUCHI begun to reduce his work as an art critic, but on the other hand, became more involved in the artist activity to produce drawings, watercolors ad decalcomanies. Whilst TAKIGUCHI was in review on the definition of an objet, DUCHAMP named TAKIGUCHI's imaginary shop of objet "Rose Selavy" after assumed name which DUCHAMP used when he was young. Assuming such cases, there seem to be an ideological sympathy between these two artists. In return for the naming, TAKIGUCHI published "Selected words of Marcel Duchamp" in 1968, and after the death of DUCHAMP in the same year, TAKIGUCHI has left vast amount of writings, multiples and hand made books. It is not an exaggeration to state that TAKIGUCHI's main theme in his later life was focused on DUCHAMP and a study on his work "The Large Glass".

In this exhibition, we are exhibiting photo series "Marcel Duchamp -The Large Glass-" from 1973 by Ikko NARAHARA along with TAKIGUCHI and DUCHAMP's works to show the bond between these two artists, and also to seek the background of TAKIGUCHI and DUCHAMP, who had significant influences on Japanese modern art in the 1960s.

Shuzo TAKIGUCHI's decalcomanies, drawings, "Cigar box", "Cigar box TEN-TEN", "A souvenir or not of Philadelphia", Marcel DUCHAMP's "Green box" and 9 original copperplate prints from "The Large Glass", Ikko NARAHARA's photo series "Marcel Duchamp -The Large Glass-" and Shuzo TAKIGUCHI and Kazuo OKAZAKI's "OCULIST WITNESSES" are on exhibit.

Essays by Shuzo TAKIGUCHI
"First-hand Experiences"
"I also Draw (1961)"

Essay on Shuzo TAKIGUCHI
"Shuzo Takiguchi - Life and Works" by Nobuhiko Tsuchibuchi

■Shuzo TAKIGUCHI (1903.12.7 - 1979.7.1)
Known as a poet and an art critic. Embodied the principle of surrealism and supported activities of numerous artists as a logic and a moral support of an avant-garde movement during pre and post war era of Japan. He collaborated with artists in and out of Japan to create illustrated collection of poems, and also created various artworks himself.
Born 1903 in Toyama prefecture. He was intimate with literatures and arts from young age, and was especially fond of William Blake. While at Keio University Faculty of Letters Department of English Literature, he was deeply influenced by the surrealism, introduced by his teacher Junzaburo Nishiwaki, and through books such as "The Surrealist Manifesto" and "The Magnetic Fields". He published series of experimental poetic texts while at the university, and also fully translated Andre Breton's "Surrealism and Painting". Graduated in 1931, Takiguchi was employed as a scriptor at PCL (Photo Chemical Laboratory, predecessor of Toho Company, Ltd.) and started his activity as an art critic. He continued correspondenses between overseas surrealist, translated and introduced Breton's "The Communicating Vessels", "Mad Love", his lecture in the International Cultural Defence Convention of Artists against Nazi, along with works of artists such as Ernst and Dali. In 1937, Takiguchi organised "the Overseas Surrealism Exhibition" with Sansei Yamanaka (also edited the memorial publication "Album Surrealist"). Along with art criticisms such as "Surrealism sculpting theory" and "Problems on Avant-garde Art", he has also released photo criticisms such as "Photography and Surrealism" and "Materials and Photographs", guiding researching avant-garde artists and photographers who were not members of art circles. Unfortunately, this was regarded as an international communist activity, and he was captured by a special police for seven months from the spring of 1941.
After the war, he has presented many art criticisms, becoming a representative critic of the era. While providing chances for young artists by planning over 200 exhibitions at Takemiya Gallery, he also took part in the activity of "Jikken Kobou (Experiment studio)" founded in 1951 as an advisor. With his honest character, his influence was very significant.
In 1958, he traveled to Europe to take part in the Venice Biennale as a commissioner. There he rated Italian architecture representative Fonatana very highly, and voted him for the painting section. After the Biennale, he traveled across Europe to meet people such as Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali and Henri Michaux (He recalled meeting with Breton was "the harvest of life").
After returning to Japan, his writings on art criticism were reduced, and more private writings, like an introductory note of an exhibition has increased. Contrary to retiring from public positions, he was very enthusiastic to become a special counsel for Genpei Akasegawa's "1,000 yen note incident" which was on court between 1965 to 1970. Collaborating with many artists such as Joan Miro and Sam Francis to create illustrated collection of poems, he also created many works using unique techniques such as drawing, a water color, a burnt drawing, a roto-dessin and a decalcomanie and held several solo-exhibitions with his own works. In 1967 he published "Shuzo Takiguchi's poetic Experiments 1927-1937" in which he recollected poetic texts he wrote during the war. He has also left a prose text in a form of a dream record and other proverb like short phrase works. He was offerred the name "Rrose Selavy" for his conceptual "objet shop" from Marcel Duchamp, who he kept in touch since his travel to Europe mentioned above. In return, he published "Selected words of Marcel Duchamp" in 1968. He continued his research on Duchamp, later producing multiple sculptures which multi-layerizated part of Duchamp's "Large Glass"(Rrose Selavy, Tokyo 1977. Collaborated with sculptor Kazuo Okazaki). Passed away in 1979 due to an heart attack.

<Shuzo TAKIGUCHI Exhibition - III
-Shuzo TAKIGUCHI & Marcel DUCHAMP-> works list
November 5 Wed. - November 22 Sat. 2014

No.	Image	Artist	Title	Date	Medium	Measurement	Sign
1		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"II-40" Image on reverse side		Decalcomanie, paper	Image size: 13.7×19.6cm Sheet size: 13.7×19.6cm
2		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-3"		Decalcomanie, paper	Image size: 13.7×9.8cm Sheet size: 13.7×9.8cm
3		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-6"		Decalcomanie, paper	Image size: 19.3×13.8cm Sheet size: 19.3×13.8cm
4		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-12"		Decalcomanie, paper (Post card)	Image size: 14.2×9.1cm Sheet size: 14.2×9.1cm
5		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-13"		Decalcomanie, paper	Image size: 15.5×8.2cm Sheet size: 19.3×13.1cm
6		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-14"		Decalcomanie, paper	Image size: 18.5×13.9cm Sheet size: 18.5×13.9cm
7		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-32"		Decalcomanie, paper * In pair with III-33	Image size: 18.0×13.0cm Sheet size: 26.2×19.1cm
8		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-33"		Decalcomanie, paper * In pair with III-32	Image size: 18.0×13.2cm Sheet size: 26.3×19.2cm
9		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-43"		Decalcomanie, paper * In pair with III-44	Image size: 17.5×13.6cm Sheet size: 17.5×13.6cm
10		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"III-44"		Decalcomanie, paper * In pair with III-43	Image size: 17.3×13.6cm Sheet size: 17.3×13.6cm
11		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"I-22"		Watercolor on paper	Image size: 18.1×11.4cm Sheet size: 18.2×11.5cm
12		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"I-34"		Water color and ink on paper	Image size: 34.2×23.6cm Sheet size: 35.7×25.1cm
13		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"Cigar Box" (Chiba City Museum of Art, p.203 No.229) * Reference exhibit		Cigar case, memo, photos, etc.,	21.5×16.5×3.6cm
14		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"Cigar Box TEN-TEN" (Chiba City Museum of Art, p.203 No.231) * Reference exhibit		mixed media	16.8×21.2×6.2cm
15		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI	"A souvenir or not of Philadelphia" (Chiba City Museum of Art, p.176 No.200)	1973	Hand made booflet	20.5×14.0cm
16		Shuzo TAKIGUCHI/ Kazuo OKAZAKI	"Oculist Witnesses after Marcel Duchamp" (Chiba City Museum of Art, p.185 No.205) * Reference exhibit	1977	Silkscreen, acrylic plate, lens, aluminium	26.0×26.0×26.0cm
17		Marcel DUCHAMP	"La Mariee mise a nu par ses celibataires meme. (The Green Box)" (Chiba City Museum of Art, p.94 No.4) * Reference exhibit	1934	Memo, drawing of a plan, replicated works, photos, box	33.2×28.0×2.5cm
18		Marcel DUCHAMP	<The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Case size: 43.3×27.7×7.1cm	Signed by Marcel Duchamp and the auther
18-1		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Top Inscription" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 15.7×34.3cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-2		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Bride" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 26.5×11.5cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-3		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Nine Malic Moulds" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 12.8×17.5cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-4		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Sieves" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 17.6×13.0cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-5		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Oculist Witnesses" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 14.1×9.2cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-6		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Water Mill" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 24.7×14.0cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-7		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Chocolate Grinder" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 25.7×32.6cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-8		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Large Glass" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 35.0×23.3cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
18-9		Marcel DUCHAMP	"The Large Glass Completed" from <The Large Glass>	1967	Etching Ed.150	Image size: 34.9×23.3cm Sheet size: 41.9×50.2cm	Signed on plate
19		Ikko NARAHARA	"MD-8" from <Duchamp - The Large Glass>	1973 (Printed in 2014)	Lambda print	35.5×43.0cm
20		Ikko NARAHARA	"MD-11" from <Duchamp - The Large Glass>	1973 (Printed in 2014)	Lambda print	43.0×35.5cm
21		Ikko NARAHARA	"MD-34" from <Duchamp - The Large Glass>	1973 (Printed in 2014)	Lambda print	35.5×43.0cm
22		Ikko NARAHARA	"MD-50" from <Duchamp - The Large Glass>	1973 (Printed in 2014)	Lambda print	43.0×35.5cm
23		Ikko NARAHARA	"MD-55" from <Duchamp - The Large Glass>	1973 (Printed in 2014)	Lambda print	43.0×35.5cm