Unique
Acrylic, cotton cloth, mold
73 × 91 × 8 cm
28 7/10 × 35 4/5 × 3 1/10 in
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Rarity
Unique
Certificate of Authenticity
Included (issued by authorized authenticating body)
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2020
Small Works 1950s–2020: Masatoshi Masanobu, Ryuji Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Norio Imai
ARTCOURT Gallery2017
Becoming and Dissolving
ALICE BLACK2013
Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s
Rachofsky Private Collection
Norio Imai
Japanese, b. 1946
As part of the avant-garde Gutai Art Group, Norio Imai developed a diverse practice spanning painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, and performance
Beginning with monochromatic, minimalist works that explored the sculptural possibilities of painting, Imai created swells, indentations, and voids that pushed against the limits of the two-dimensional surface. In postwar Japan, where rapid technological innovation was widely associated with progress and growth, his forms instead suggested more unstable states, including mutation, rupture, and collapse
Working primarily in white, Imai explored its status as both colour and non-colour. White paint appeared materially present on the canvas, while also evoking absence, silence, and void. As his career progressed, he extended these investigations into video, often combining moving image with live performance and photography
Axel Vevoordt Gallery
Boris created the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in 2011. The gallery opened in a historic space in the centre of Antwerp with an exhibition by Günther Uecker
Boris chose to open the gallery in the same exact place where his father had mounted exhibitions for Uecker and Jef Verheyen in the 1970s. The first exhibition — and those that followed — linked this new start to the company’s long history with art and its original home in the Vlaeykensgang. This continued a path of more than 40 years of working closely with artists