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Nobuo Sekine
This exhibition will focus on the early work of Nobuo Sekine including oil paintings created while he was a student at Tama Art University's Department of Painting.
The "Mineral Series" that Nobuo Sekine created during his junior and senior years in university, combined the "Eros Series" and "Buddhist Statue Series," which he had been working on until then, and centered on the darkness of a black lake and the sad expressions of the figures falling into it. In 1966, Sekine met Yoshishige Saito, and as he learned the fundamentals of abstract painting, he realized the theoretical weakness of his work. In 1968, he participated in his first outdoor sculpture exhibition and exhibited "Phase - Earth," in which he dug a large hole (cylinder) in the ground of Suma Detached Palace Park with a shovel and piled up the dug-out soil in a cylindrical shape beside the hole. This grand-scale work, which could be described as a thought experiment using topology, made Nobuo Sekine a star.
In 1970, he was selected to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale and took this opportunity to go to Europe. He exhibited "Kuu Sang," a work of natural stone placed on a stainless steel column, at the Venice Biennale, which later became a permanent collection work (Sekine Corner) at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark. Impressed by Italian cities and architectural spaces, where architecture and art are fused, he established the Institute for Environmental Art in 1973 to focus on "environmental art," which was not yet well known in Japan.
The first of the Nobuo Sekine Exhibitions will trace the transition of Nobuo Sekine's work through a display of rare early oil paintings, sculptures, prints, posters, and other works from before "Phase - The Earth".
The "Mineral Series" that Nobuo Sekine created during his junior and senior years in university, combined the "Eros Series" and "Buddhist Statue Series," which he had been working on until then, and centered on the darkness of a black lake and the sad expressions of the figures falling into it. In 1966, Sekine met Yoshishige Saito, and as he learned the fundamentals of abstract painting, he realized the theoretical weakness of his work. In 1968, he participated in his first outdoor sculpture exhibition and exhibited "Phase - Earth," in which he dug a large hole (cylinder) in the ground of Suma Detached Palace Park with a shovel and piled up the dug-out soil in a cylindrical shape beside the hole. This grand-scale work, which could be described as a thought experiment using topology, made Nobuo Sekine a star.
In 1970, he was selected to represent Japan at the Venice Biennale and took this opportunity to go to Europe. He exhibited "Kuu Sang," a work of natural stone placed on a stainless steel column, at the Venice Biennale, which later became a permanent collection work (Sekine Corner) at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark. Impressed by Italian cities and architectural spaces, where architecture and art are fused, he established the Institute for Environmental Art in 1973 to focus on "environmental art," which was not yet well known in Japan.
The first of the Nobuo Sekine Exhibitions will trace the transition of Nobuo Sekine's work through a display of rare early oil paintings, sculptures, prints, posters, and other works from before "Phase - The Earth".
Schedule | Jan 20 (Fri) 2023-Feb 4 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.tokinowasuremono.com/tenrankag/izen/tk2301/350.html | ||||
| Venue | Toki-no-Wasuremono https://www.tokinowasuremono.com/ | ||||
| Location | Las Casas, 5-4-1 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0021 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 1 at Komagome Station on the Namboku line, 5 minute walk from the South exit of Komagome Station on the JR Yamanote line, 9 minute walk from exit A1 at Sengoku Station on the Toei Mita line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6902-9530 | ||||
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