Before the first fullscale exhibition at the national art center in Tokyo and the largescale one at Guggenheim Museum in New York, the evaluation for 'GUTAI' is getting higher. In this exhibition, small works of 'GUTAI' will be exhibited at Art U, where can show the good quality of them clearly. Unlike the museum, it will be a gread chance to enjoy the works at close range. 

The Gutai group (means "Embodiment") was an artistic movement and association of artists founded (according to most sources) by Jiro Yoshihara in Japan in 1954. According to the official website of Shozo Shimamoto, Shimamoto and Yoshihara founded Gutai together in 1954, and it was Shimamoto who suggested the name Gutai, which contrary to popular belief does not mean concrete but embodiment (according to this source) ”The kangi used to write 'gu' means tool, measures, and a way of doing something, while 'tai' means body. [Wikipedia]

Artists: Jiro Yoshihara,Kazuo Shiraga, Sadamasa Motonaga、Atsuko Tanaka、Shozo Shimamoto、Akira Kanayama, Turuko Yamazaki, Yuko Nasaka, Senkitiro Nasaka, Takenori Matutani、Sumi Yasuo、Chuu Uemae, Kimiko Ohara