Published on the occasion of the exhibition “A Visual Essay on Gutai” curated by Midori Nishizawa and organized with Olivier Renaud-Clément at Hauser & Wirth New York. “A Visual Essay on Gutai” marks the half-century anniversary of the Gutai Group’s first U.S. exhibition, which was organized by the French critic Michel Tapié, noted champion of Art Informel. His “6th Gutai Art Exhibition” was presented in New York City in September 1958 at the Martha Jackson Gallery at 32 East 69th Street – in the townhouse now occupied by auser & Wirth New York.