Gutai in Europe, starting from Italy by Bruno Cora
Among the many events organized over the past years to present the research carried out from the mid-1950s by the artistic group Gutai under the charismatic guidance of Jiro Yoshihara was the exhibition “Under Each Other’s Spell”: Gutai and New York held at the Pollock–Krasner House and Study Center.1 This had the merit of raising a query that from the New York scene, and the figure of Jackson Pollock in particular, may also be extended to other leading art cities in Europe in the same period. The American exhibition, whose staging was made possible by the presence of items from the archives of Paul and Suzanne Jenkins, as well as those of other generous lenders, stressed the efforts made by members of the Gutai group, including Jiro Yoshihara and Shozo Shimamoto, to circulate their magazine more widely, and their desire in the early months of 1956 to find out what Pollock thought of their art. They themselves openly expressed their admiration for Pollock’s work, as well as for that of French artist Georges Mathieu.
Bruno Cora, published in Painting with Time and Space, Silvana Editoriale, 2010
Bruno Cora, published in Painting with Time and Space, Silvana Editoriale, 2010
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