ART–OTH–MUR
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Saburo Murakami
Gestural Lineages
Performance as structure
ART–OTH–MUR
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Performance as structure
Saburo Murakami
ART–OTH–MUR
Performance as structure
Index Code:
ART–OTH–MUR
Orgin:
Kobe, Japan
Field Notes:
performance as structure · rupture as creation · surface as time
Defining Moment:
Early 1950s — gesture as threshold; order clarified

Saburo Murakami

( 
1925–1996
 )
sah-boo-ro moo-rah-kah-mee

Murakami built a world defined by passage.

His most iconic act — bursting through sheets of paper — transformed painting into performance, surface into event.

The wall became a threshold between creation and release.

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In his world, rupture is renewal: the artwork exists in the instant it disappears.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Saburo Murakami’s work, this approach appears where action activates material.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Saburo Murakami’s work, this approach appears where action activates material.
Constructed Surfaces
Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.
Systems of Clarity
Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.
Gesture
Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.
Structure
Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.
Material
Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.
Art
Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.
Gutai
Material and action test the limits of form through direct physical engagement.
Neo-Dada
Everyday materials disrupt conventional meaning and authorship.
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Structual Relations
The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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How are these related?
Quiet Modernism relates practices through how form is organized rather than how it appears. Connections emerge through shared structural conditions — such as repetition, constraint, spatial organization, material behavior, or duration — even when outcomes differ.

A single grouping may reflect multiple overlapping structural concerns.
Atsuko Tanaka
Light as body
Lucio Fontana
Cut as gesture

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