MURAYAMA, Tomoyoshi

Murayama introduced Dada to Japan. After spending several months of 1922 in Berlin, he returned with an esthetic platform he called Conscious Construction, even though it resembled Dada more than CONSTRUCTIVISM. Once home, he quickly mounted several exhibitions, mostly of small works, because, as Tsutomu Mizusawa writes, He could not wait for larger pieces to arrive by sea freight. He called the show Exhibition of Small Conscious Constructivist Works by Tomoyoshi Murayama Dedicated...