Gallery Itsutsuji is a contemporary art gallery founded in 1990 by Michiyasu Itsutsuji.

History

Expanding a tradition built over 20 years from around 1970 to 1990 by Fuji Television Gallery, Michiyasu Itsutsuji founded in the traditional cultural heart of Tokyo (Bunkyo-ku) this contemporary art gallery in 1990 (see Art Museum, notable galleries list). Michiyasu Itsutsuji was made by French Culture Ministry a Knight (chevalier) of Ordre des Arts et Lettres (reputed sponsor Musee du Jeu de Paume's D. Abadie.

When in the mid 60s to 70s the support-surface movement appeared in France, Gallery Itsutsuji was the point of introduction of the movement into Japan, exposing it to museums and private and corporate collections.

For example, Claude Viallat

Claude Viallat

Claude Viallat is a French contemporary painter.-Biography:Born in Nîmes, he grew up in Aubais, a French village with a strong bull tradition...

, Louis Cane, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Daniel Dezeuze

Daniel Dezeuze

Daniel Dezeuze is a French artist and a founding member of the French group of artists called Supports-Surfaces. This group started to form in 1966...

, and at the same time Jean-Michel Meurice, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Pierre Buraglio.

Currently, while still representing the artist the gallery helped introducing to Japan, the gallery promotes the following younger artists: Guillaume Bottazzi

Guillaume Bottazzi

Guillaume Bottazzi is a French artist.He started his professional artist career in 1990 in Italy. In 1994, he received a government grant from direction régionale des Affaires culturelles with the attribution of a government art studio...

 from France, Katsue Sukenari from Japan and others. It also promotes Japanese contemporary artists, Ay-O

Ay-O

is a Japanese artist, who has been associated with Fluxus since its international beginnings in the 1960s.-From Democrato to Fluxus:Probably, the best reference to understand the early years of Ay-O is the autobiographical retrospective book in the references "Ay-O, Over the Rainbow, Ay-O...

being one of them.

Biography

Before founding his own gallery, Michiyasu Itsutsuji worked at the Fuji TV gallery. He recently played advisory roles in some exhibits at Fukui City Museum, Miyazaki prefectural art museum.

External links

• Official website, gallery-itsutsuji.com
• Contemporary Art in France, French Embassy, ambafrance-jp.org, blog.goo.ne.jp
• Ministere de la Culture, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Decret Mai 2000
• Gérard Titus-Carmel, pagesperso-orange.fr - Extraits & fragments des saisons 1989/1990, tobeart.com
• Pierre Buraglio
• Collectif d'art contemporain français, tobeart.com
• « Pierre Descargues / Yves Klein as if he were not dead », Gallery Itsutsuji, Tokyo, Japan, yveskleinarchives.org