The First Gutai Art Exhibition took place in Ohara hall, Tokyo, Japan, in October 1955. This exhibition was the first manifestation of Gutai and displayed wide-ranging types of works created by a group of young artists formed around association leader Jiro Yoshihara. In the spirit of avant-garde, Gutai Artists challenged the formats, materials, and boundaries of painting with innovative projects that explore space, time, and sound. The group's interest is in direct emotion and direct connections between the spirit and the material, and their goal is to do something completely unexpected and create art that is unrelated to the concept of past.