Isozaki Arata & "Yojou-han surrealism"

[Martin Vieillot]

Dear,

While (too briefly) discutting about Adachi's Gingakei, it has been put to my attention that Isozaki Arata  (a Genjiro Arata relative?) seemed to be an important critical voice, who defined Adachi/VANInstitute films as "Yojou-han" works (=student-room="simple/limited"). Seems this critical voice had also a certain echo, and that this expression has been famous since (in Japan at least ^^)

Can anyone provide some more context (or corrections) about this? Did Arata aim to define the whole pluri-disciplinary 60s surrealist japanese movement? And to some extent, did he belong to a kind of "anti-surrealist critical movement"?

2 more (and less crucial) questions about Gingakei, does anyone know where were located those rather impressive stairs? And which artist made the "Jigoku" painting?


Thanks!

Martin