MURAKAMI, SABURO

Saburo Murakami (1925 June 27 Kobe, Japan – 1996 January 11 Nishinomiya, Japan) is a artist and was member of the Group Zero and Gutai group.

In 1948 he took his doctor´s degre in philosophy at the university of Kansai, and he specialized in aestheics. In 1953 he took part in founding the group Zero, wich was then mergeg in Gutai.

He is best known for his happenings, especially for the “paper tearing”.