Tsuruko Yamazaki

Reflection as architecture

Tsuruko Yamazaki was a Japanese artist and a founding member of Gutai. Her early works include mirrored aluminum panels painted with intense color, creating reflective, immersive surfaces. She also explored performance, installation, and unconventional materials, contributing to Gutai’s spirit of radical experimentation.

Her practice merges material inventiveness with sensory boldness.

Tsuruko Yamazaki was a Japanese Gutai artist known for reflective aluminum works and vivid experimental surfaces.

Tsuruko Yamazaki was a Japanese artist known for reflective, color-rich Gutai works using aluminum, lacquer, and performative experimentation.

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