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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

)

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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.

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.

Gestural Lineages

Gesture is transmitted as a disciplined method across generations of practice.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

In Dialogue

Gesture as structure

Shozo Shimamoto

Impact as geometry