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Shusaku Arakawa (1936 - 2010) was active/lived in New York / Japan. Shusaku Arakawa is known for Modernist genre-caligraphy, graphics.
The following obituary is by Fred A. Bernstein and published in
The New York Times
, May 19, 2010.
Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73.
He had been hospitalized for a week, said Ms. Gins, who declined to give the cause of death.
"This mortality thing is bad news," Ms. Gins said by phone from her studio on Houston Street. She said she would redouble her efforts to prove that "aging can be outlawed."
Arakawa, who was known professionally by his surname, and Ms. Gins explored their philosophy, which they called Reversible Destiny, in poems, books, paintings and, when they found clients, buildings.
Their most recent work, a house on Long Island, had a steeply sloped floor that threatened to send visitors hurtling into its kitchen. Called Bioscleave House (Lifespan ...
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Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (New Brunswick, NJ)
Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York City, NY)
Portland Art Museum, Oregon (Portland, OR)
Reynolda House-Museum of American Art (Winston-Salem, NC)
Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA)
Town Linz Gallery/Wolfgang Gurlitt (Linz, Austria)
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