Katsuhiko Akasegawa

Place: Yokohama

Born: 1937

Death: 2014

Biography:

AKASEGAWA Genpei, also known as Katsuhiko Akasegawa, was a Japanese artist born in Yokohama, Japan in 1937 and died in Tokyo, Japan in 2014. He was a member of the influential artist groups Neo-Dada Organizers and Hi-Red Center, and maintained a multi-disciplinary practice throughout his career as an individual artist. He had retrospective exhibitions at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Chiba City Museum, and Oita City Museum, and his work is in the permanent collection at Museum of Modern Art in New York. Akasegawa is known for his conceptual art named Thomasson or Hyperart Thomasson, which refers to a useless relic or structure that has been preserved as part of a building or the built environment, and has been deemed even more art-like than art itself.