Tatsumi Hijikata
Press:
Hyperallergic, November 30, 2019
Art Viewer, November 19, 2019
Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, November 13, 2019
Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2019
AUTRE, October 18, 2019
Tatsumi Hijikata was the founder of Ankoku Butoh (literally meaning, dance of darkness), widely known and practiced today, some 60 years later, as Butoh.
Hijikata arrived to Tokyo from the Northern rural Tohoku region in 1952 and worked blue-collar jobs to support his dance pursuits. As his rural accent set him apart from Tokyo's urbanites, Hijikata filled his time reading French writers, such as Jean Genet, Antonin Artaud and Georges Bataille. Aesthetically, he looked towards artists such as Egon Schiele, Hans Bellmer and Willem De Kooning. Hijikata’s provocative performances stemmed from this exploration of eros, debauchery, disease and death, evoking the rarely seen dark half of the human psyche. With awareness of German Expressionist dance and technical capabilities in Modern dance genres including jazz, flamenco, classical ballet and pantomime, Hijikata felt the imperative to develop a new dance form, and with the underlying notion of the anti-establishment, Hijikata's Butoh stands as a form of anti-dance. The exhibition's organizer, Takashi Morishita has written "Hijikata's Butoh… is body art whose expression is a "convulsion of existence".
As an artist working in performance with relationship to Happenings, a popular in his times, Tatsumi Hijikata became a central figure in Japan's avant-garde and achieved lasting global influence. At Nonaka-Hill, Hijikata’s archival material including video, photography, posters and ephemera will be featured, resulting from collaborations with and documentation by Genpei Akasegawa, Nori Doi, Hideo Fujimori, Masahisa Fukase, Roku Hasegawa, Eikoh Hosoe, Masuo Ikeda, Kenji Ishiguro, Yukio Mishima, Hiroshi Nakamura, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Tadao Nakatani, Makoto Onozuka, Kiyoshi Otsuji, Keiya Ouchida, Yutaka Takanashi, Ikko Tanaka / Hiroshi Yamasaki, Ryozen Tori, Tadanori Yokoo, Ruiko Yoshida and unknown others.
Tatsumi Hijikata is the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986). Organized by Takashi Morishita and Butoh Laboratory, Japan, with cooperation of Keio University Art Canter, Tokyo. Special thanks to Yoshiko Shimada. The exhibition and brochure is made possible by a grant from The Pola Foundation.
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Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive細江英公: 鎌鼬・記念写真, Photograph by Eikoh Hosoe, Commemorative Photograph for Eikoh Hosoe Winning The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture’s Arts Encouragement Prize for Kamaitachi, 19699 5/8 x 11 3/4 in
24.4 x 29.8 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive細江英公: バラ色ダンス(フェンシング), Photograph by Eikoh Hosoe, Tatsumi Hijikata Performing Fencing Sequence in Rose-Colored Dance, 196515 1/4 x 21 1/8 in
38.8 x 53.5 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive細江英公: バラ色ダンス (土方と大野一雄), Photograph by Eikoh Hosoe, Rose-Colored Dance (Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno), 196519 3/4 x 16 1/4 in
50 x 41.2 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchiveTadanori Yokoo: Rose-Colored Dance Poster (横尾忠則: バラ色ダンス) , 1965Silkscreen40 3/8 x 28 3/4 in
102.4 x 73 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive横尾忠則(細江英公) : 土方巽と日本人, Design by Tadanori Yokoo, Revolt of the Body Poster, 1968Silkscreen40 1/2 x 28 1/2 in
102.9 x 72.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive横尾忠則: 土方巽燔犠大踏鑑, Design by Tadanori Yokoo, Tatsumi Hijikata Mirror of Sacrificing Great Dance Collection Exhibition , 1970Silkscreen43 x 31 1/4 in
109.2 x 79.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchiveTadanori Yokoo: Rose-Colored Dance Poster (横尾忠則: バラ色ダンス) , 1965Silkscreen40 3/8 x 28 3/4 in
102.4 x 73 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive赤瀬川原平: 易断面相図幕, Work by Genpei Akasegawa, I Ching Accupuncture Chart for Rose-Colored Dance, 1965Chinese ink on cloth74 3/4 x 100 3/8 in
190 x 255 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchivePhotograph by unknown: バラ色ダンス(床屋), Rose-Colored Dance (Barber Shop), 196512 7/8 x 19 1/8 in
32.8 x 48.3 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchivePhotograph by unknown: バラ色ダンス(玉野背中), Rose-Colored Dance (Tamano's Back), 196519 1/8 x 12 7/8 in
48.3 x 32.8 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchivePhotograph by unknown: レダ, Leda, 196211 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
29.8 x 42 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchivePhotograph by unknown: 晩年の土方巽, Tatsumi Hijikata in late years, 1985, 198523 3/8 x 16 1/2 in
59.4 x 42 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - ArchivePhotograph by unknown: 肉体の叛乱 (行進), Revolt of th Body (Marching), 196812 7/8 x 19 1/8 in
32.8 x 48.3 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archiveアスベスト館: 東北歌舞伎計画, Film by Asbestos Hall, Tōhoku Kabuki Project, 1985DVD30 min
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Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive中村宏: 肉体の叛乱, Film by Hiroshi Nakamura, Revolt of the Body, 1968DVD13 min
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Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive中西夏之: 男子背面,Work by Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Back of Natsuyuki Nakanishi (From General Catalogue of Males '63), 1961Blue print66 3/8 x 26 1/4 in
168.5 x 66.7 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive中谷忠雄: アスベスト館ハプニング, Photograph by Tadao Nakatani, Asbestos Hall Happening, 196819 5/8 x 16 1/4 in
49.8 x 41.3 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive中谷忠雄: 形而情學 (解剖図を描く), Photograph by Tadao Nakatani, Emotion in Metaphyics (Natsuyuki Nakanishi Painting Anatomy), 1967height 19 3/4 in
height 50 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive中谷忠雄: 肉体の叛乱 (フィナーレ), Photograph by Tadao Nakatani, Revolt of the Body (Finale), 196819 3/4 x 16 1/4 in
50 x 41.3 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive吉田ルイ子: 「静かな家」舞台写真, Photograph by Ruiko Yoshida, Quiet House, 19738 1/16 x 10 in
20.5 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive吉田ルイ子: 「静かな家」舞台写真, Photograph by Ruiko Yoshida, Quiet House, 19738 1/16 x 10 in
20.5 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive吉田ルイ子: 「静かな家」舞台写真, Photograph by Ruiko Yoshida, Quiet House, 19738 1/16 x 10 in
20.5 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive土井典: 模造男根, Work by Nori Doi, Phallic appendage worn by Tatsumi Hijikata in Hijikata Revolt of the Body, 1968
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Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive大内田圭弥: 疱瘡譚, Film by Keiya Oouchida, A Story of Small Pox, 1972DVD50 min
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Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive大辻清司: 禁色, Photograph by Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Forbidden Colors Rehearsal at Asbestos Hall, 19597 1/8 x 10 3/4 in
18.2 x 27.3 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive大辻清司: 禁色(改訂版), Photograph by Kiyoji Ōtsuji, Forbidden Colors 2nd Performance, 1959height 7 5/8 in
height 19.5 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive小野塚誠: 「静かな家」舞台写真, Photograph by Takeshi Onozuka, Quiet House, 19738 1/8 x 10 in
20.5 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive深瀬昌久: スイカを喰う土方巽(大), Photograph by Masahisa Fukase, Tatsumi Hijikata Eating a Watermelon (large), 197017 7/8 x 19 7/8 in
45.4 x 50.5 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive深瀬昌久: スイカを喰う土方巽(小), Photograph by Masahisa Fukase, Tatsumi Hijikata Eating a Watermelon (small), 19707 x 9 in
17.8 x 22.9 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive深瀬昌久: 白馬に乗る土方巽, Photograph by Masahisa Fukase, Tatsumi on a White Horse, 19708 1/8 x 10 in
20.6 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive田中一光(山崎博): 静かな家, Design by Ikko Tanaka, Photograph by Hiroshi Yamazaki, Quiet House (Part I) , 197342 7/8 x 31 in
108.9 x 78.7 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive石黒健治: 風呂敷男 (アスベスト館内), Photograph by Kenji Ishiguro, Furoshiki Otoko (Inside Asbestos Hall), 19708 x 10 in
20.3 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive石黒健治: 風呂敷男 (外), Photograph by Kenji Ishiguro, Furoshiki Otoko (outdoor), 19708 1/8 x 10 in
20.5 x 25.4 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive細江英公: バラ色ダンス (土方と大野一雄), Photograph by Eikoh Hosoe, Rose-Colored Dance (Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno), 196519 3/4 x 16 1/4 in
50 x 41.2 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive細江英公: バラ色ダンス(フェンシング), Photograph by Eikoh Hosoe, Tatsumi Hijikata Performing Fencing Sequence in Rose-Colored Dance, 196515 1/4 x 21 1/8 in
38.8 x 53.5 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive鳥居良禅: 肉体の叛乱 (男根), Photograph by Ryozen Torii, Revolt of the Body, Tatsumi Hijikata Wearing a Golden Phallus, 196830 3/8 x 20 1/4 in
77.2 x 51.6 cm -
Tatsumi Hijikata - Archive長谷川六: 肉体の叛乱 (赤ドレス), Photograph by Roku Hasegawa, Revolt of the Body (Red Dress), 196820 1/4 x 24 7/8 in
51.5 x 63.1 cm