
Gutai
We live in a time of constant change where media and streaming can easily create the rules. Our perception of our surroundings is significantly influenced by the idea of ‘instant’; we live in a type of ‘nano-time’.
Gutai, or embodiment, was a Japanese movement of the 1950’s. It celebrated the idea of ‘instant’. The following works are about the relationship of the ‘instant’ with our human way of making sense of it. Are we searching for the familiarity of something that does not exist? Mixed media in the form of photographs, textures, drawings and other formats are combined, at speed, to create ‘mind-scaped’ environments in a type of digital mezzotint.
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Gutai One 2025
Stephen McGrath
Gutai One 2025
Archival pigment print on paper
Artwork 23.5 x 18 cm ( paper 42 x 59.4 cm )
Edition of 20
Stephen McGrath
Gutai Two 2025
Archival pigment print on paper
Artwork 23.5 x 18 cm ( paper 42 x 59.4 cm )
Edition of 20
Stephen McGrath
Gutai Four ‘Yellow Line’ 2025
Archival pigment print on paper
Artwork 23.5 x 18 cm ( paper 42 x 59.4 cm )
Edition of 20
Stephen McGrath
Gutai Five ‘Aegean Garden’ 2025
Archival pigment print on paper
Artwork 23.5 x 18 cm ( paper 42 x 59.4 cm )
Edition of 20
Stephen McGrath
Gutai Seven ‘Waiting in the Doorway’ 2025
Archival pigment print on paper
Artwork 23.5 x 18 cm ( paper 42 x 59.4 cm )
Edition of 20