Dimensions: 177 x 139 cm
Signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse: '# D-156 | 1967 | Tadasky (Tadasuke Kuwayama)'
paper label with a description of the work on the reverse
Provenance
Private collection, USA
Shannon's, USA 2013
private collection, Poland
Biography
Tadasuke Kuwayama, better known as Tadasky, grew up in Nagoya, Japan. His father worked for many years as a builder of Shinto shrines, which influenced both the artist’s work and his perception of art and the creative process itself. He first came to the United States in 1961. At that time, he began his art studies—initially at the Art Students League in New York, and later at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School. Starting in the 1960s, Tadasky developed his own unique artistic language within the emerging field of optical art. His first solo exhibition took place at the Kootz Gallery in New York in 1965, and that same year his works were featured in the famous exhibition *The Responsive Eye* at the Museum of Modern Art. The New York institution acquired two of the Japanese artist’s canvases for its permanent collection, and from that moment on, his career took off at a surprisingly rapid pace. Following the “Kinetic and Optic Art Today” exhibition at the Albright-Knox Gallery, Tadasky’s works became some of the most sought-after art objects in many prestigious private and institutional art collections. Today, his concentric circles pulsating with multicolored lines can be found, among other places, at the Baltimore Museum in Florida, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, the Columbus Museum of Art in Massachusetts, the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the University of Virginia Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Buenos Aires, and in numerous galleries in Japan.
