Jiro Takamatsu

Japanese, 1936–1998

Jirō Takamatsu was one of the most important postwar Japanese artists. Takamatsu used photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and performance to fundamentally investigate the philosophical and material conditions of art. Takamatsu's practice was dedicated to the critique of cognition and perception, through the rendering and variation of morphological devices, such as shadow, tautology, appropriation, perceptual and perspective distortion and representation. Takamatsu's conceptual work can be understood through his notions of the Zero Dimension, which renders an object or form to observe its fundamental geometrical components. Takamatsu isolated these smallest constituent elements, asserting that these elements produce reality, or existence. For Takamatsu the elementary particle represents “the ultimate of division” and also “emptiness itself,” like the a line within a painting—there appears to be nothing more beyond the line itself. Yet, Takamatsu's end goal was not to just prove the presence or object-ness of these elements, but rather to use them as a way to challenge and prove the limits of human perception, leading to his fixation on “absence” or the things that are unobservable.

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Works in Collection

39 works

Jiro Takamatsu

Works in Collection

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Book designs "Rubbing"

Book designs "Rubbing"

Book designs "Rubbing"

Book designs: "Perspective"

Bundle of Events

Bundle of Events

Canned Mystery

Eraser

Form

Oneness of Paper

Overlapping

Overlapping

Perspective

Perspective

Perspective

Photograph of Photograph

Prototype for Bundle of Events

Rusty Ground

Shadow

Shadow

Slack of Net

Space in Two Dimensions

Space in Two Dimensions