Ten years after - Sadaharu Horio at Körsbärsgården
For ten days in June 2014, the Japanese Gutai icon artist Sadaharu Horio (1939 - 2018) and his team KUKI took over Körsbärsgården. An exhibition was built on site of discarded objects from agriculture and buildings from the area, which were painted, turned into sculptures, given new life and content. The exhibition was made interactive with children, young people and adults who got new inputs into the artistic work process. In one of the rooms, Horio painted square lights directly on the walls. That work became permanent. Now, ten years later, we are showing the works again in memory of the now deceased artist (who would have turned 85 this year).
Sadaharu Horio i arbete på Körsbärsgården
Horio was one of the participants in the Gutai (using the body as a tool) movement founded in 1954 by Jiro Yoshihara in Osaka. The group included Kazuo Shiraga, Saburo Murakami and Shozo Shimamoto. It was the first radical group of artists in Japan after the Second World War, all working in the borderland of painting, happenings and performance. The group disbanded with Yoshihara’s death in 1972. Horio continued in the borderland between painting and performance, in 2003 he formed the group KUKI which was by his side during all the countless trips and performances he came to do around the world until his death, for example at the Biennale in Venice 2009 and 2011, at the Guggenheim in New York 2012, in Frankfurt, Antwerp, Lille, Stockholm (Modern Museum). And in 2014 it was time for Gotland.
