| CAREER | 1957 Born in Ibaraki, JAPAN 1979 Graduated from Nihon University College of Art 2005 Professor of Nihon University PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS: 2004 Gallery GAN, Tokyo 1997 Atagoyama Gallery, Tokyo ('90/ '86) 1981 Runami Gallery, Tokyo SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2005 New Heavy "The Iron to Feel" The Proposal by Five Sculptors. CAP HOUSE, Hyogo Art of Tsukuba. Ibaraki 2003 The 5th Exhibition of Amabiki Village and Sculpture. Yamato, Ibaraki ('99/ '97-'98) 2002 Session 3. Gallery Seira, Tokyo 2000 Exhibition of Lithograph by Sculptors. Gallery OM, Kanagawa 1998 The Magnetic Field of Contemporary Art Tsukuba 1998. Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki 1997 '97 Taegu Asia Arts Exhibition. KOREA 1996 Art with Bodily Sensations '96: The Survival Tool that thinks with artists. Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba 1989 Art in Ibaraki 1945-1988. The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki PARTY 3. Toshiba bldg.., Hamamatsu-cho, Tokyo ('88) 1985 Tsukuba International Environmental Arts Symposium '85. Ibaraki 1983 The 4th Kita-kanto Art Exhibition. Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts |
AMABIKI 2022
zigzag to the sky
steel
500×7500×360 (h)cm
AMABIKI 2019
Cloud gap
steel
1000×900×270 (h)cm
AMABIKI 2015
Day and Night
Corten steel
250×140×270 (h)cm
AMABIKI 2013
Clouds go
Steel
950×200×250 (h)cm
850×200×270 (h)cm
One memory from when I was a student was the song in "Manyoshu (the Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves)" that went 'my foot got stuck in mud and I couldn't move, but the clouds kept passing by'. I remember thinking the relationship between that person and the clouds was so beautiful. I am gazing at the sky of Amabiki, clouds and my consciousness flow across space and time.
AMABIKI 2011 In the midst of winter
gravitational woods
Steel, Water
2,000×1,200×320(h)cm 5pieces
AMABIKI 2008
Circle
Steel
300×330×340 (h)cm
The inspiration for this work actually came from the site where I intended to place it.
The first things I feel standing by the riverside are the breadth of the sky, and the great expanse of rural scenery, bounded by Mt. Tsukuba and Mt. Kaba.
I thought that perhaps, by incorporating this scenery into my work, I could reveal what lay beyond it.
AMABIKI 2006
SPRING VEIL
Steel
150×350×300 (h)cm
×3pieces
I created this sculpture as I was waiting for spring. The land alongside the Sakura River has returned to its original appearance after the two-month exhibition period. Overgrown with verdant reeds, the breeze rustles gently over the land.
THE 5TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
The alley like a maze
Iron
700×200×160 cm
2000 kg
THE 3RD EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
Ark
Iron
300×350×300 cm
2000 kg
THE 2ND EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
Clossing
Iron
245×260×180 cm
1500 kg