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HORI Kosai, <REVOLUTION>, Cloth, Drawing on paper, 318 sheets installation, performance, 1971-1972-2014-2016
[Japan] HORI Kosai REVOLUTION
The starting point of Hori Kosai’s art activities can be traced back to his performance titled Self Burial Ceremony performed on Ginja street in Tokyo after he entered Tama Art College in 1967. In July 1969 he formed the Artists Joint Struggle Academy with other like-minded students and served as chairman of a political struggle group for students of art colleges under the slogan “Create Cultural Ruins!” By facing a canvas and supporting roll or a new wall going up unlimitedly, this artwork in this exhibition attempts to show that attracting people beyond a generation, place, and time continues and exists as an endless revolution. His saying on a defiant leaflet reading “If you are called an artist now, the place will be a battlefield” has continued till today. |
