{"id":25271,"date":"2014-10-26T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=25271"},"modified":"2019-10-26T04:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:42:22","slug":"genpei-akasegawa-death-of-neo-dada-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/10\/26\/genpei-akasegawa-death-of-neo-dada-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Genpei Akasegawa – Death of Neo Dada Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    R.I.P Genpei Akasegawa<\/a> – (he was 77 years old.<\/a>) <\/p>\n

    Artnet (obit) <\/a> <\/p>\n

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    Genpei Akasegawa <\/a>is a pseudonymof Japanese artist Katsuhiko Akasegawa (born 1937). During the 1950s and 1960s, he became involved within the Neo-Dada movement, when he formed the Hi-Red Center collective. In 1970s he worked with the idea of Hyper-Art, ordinary street object that happened to look like a conceptual artwork. For what was to become the \u201cThousand-yen bill incident\u201d, Akasegawa sent out invitations to a solo exhibition in 1963, in a cash envelope mailed through the post. The printed invitation reproduced a 1,000-yen note with the exhibition details at the back, when the local police notice, they arrested him for producing counterfeits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    \n“A Record of the Wind” by Genpei Akasagawa <\/p>\n

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    Going Nowhere <\/a>(see more images here) <\/p>\n

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    See Zero yen<\/a> <\/p>\n

    His irreverent humor and cunning observation of everyday life made him popular as a writer, peaking with his 1998 book R\u00f5jinryoku, in which he put forth a hilariously positive take on the declining capabilities of the elderly. Hyperart: Thomasson, marks a crucial turning point in his metamorphosis from a subversive culture to a popular culturatus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n