MURAKAMI Tsukumo



CAREER
1994
Born in Fukui, JAPAN
1996
Graduated from the Sculputure class of Pacific Art School

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
2004
Gallery Takashi Saitoh, Ibaraki ('01)
2002
Gokase Culture Hall, Miyazaki
2000
Art Gallery Tsukuba, Ibaraki
1996
Gallery Ginga, Aomori
1988
Kinokuniya Gallery. Tokyo

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2005
Contemporary Art from Tsukuba. Ibaraki('03/ '01/ '99/ '97)
2004
"Ikebukuro Michi Sinsei" Social Experiment (Sunshine St.). Tokyo
2003
The 5th Exhibition of Amabiki Village and Sculpture. Ibaraki ('01/ '99/ '97)
2002
Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture in Hyuga. Miyazaki
1990
The 2nd Festival of Modern Japan's Wood Sculptures at Seki. Gifu

SYMPOSIUMS:
2000
The 1st Sculpture Symposium in Asamushi. Aomori
1998
The 3rd Pyongtaek International Art Camp. KOREA
1995
International Wood Sculpture Camp '95 in Inami. Toyama

AMABIKI 2011 In the midst of winter




accumulation : a pile wood blossom

F.R.P.

R: 182×55×182 (h)cm
L: 200×200×200 (h)cm

The materials that are used in sculpture have their own diverse affairs and histories.
The tree I used this time is a cherry tree from our home that we needed to cut down.
For so long, our daily lives have passed in easy harmony with this tree, but now we will never see its beautiful blossoms again.
Feeling a hard-hearted moment, I gather together everything from the trunk to the branches and show everything from the inside and the outside, to create a tree's blossom.


AMABIKI 2006




Spirit of wolf

F.R.P.

300×240×240 (h)cm


THE 5TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE




Stage of Gods

Acacia, Oak, Magnolia

270×280×500 cm
1500 kg

A stage of chair on the open land in Ohkunitama of Yamato Village. I am drawn by trees as material, and I have spent a long time using the methods of sculpture? carving, cutting, polishing, assembling, forming and so on? to express their fate in sculptures. But I should add planting to that list of tasks. I really want this relationship to be a beautiful one.


THE 4TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE




GOD HAS LEFT

Wood (Zelkova tree, Japanese cypress, Crape myrtle)

300×340×370 cm
2000 kg

The trees I used in my work were crape myrtle from Oshima, zelkova from Fukushima and sawara cypress from Ibaraki. Each type is a giant tree, centuries old, and they had finished their labors in their different regions. Combining and assembling them gave birth to a new tree from trees. If they all had decayed, they will return to the refined stage of a tree. I think that I have done an extra thing again.


THE 3RD EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE




Chair of God

Zelkova

250×240×450 cm
2500 kg


THE 2ND EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE




MESSAGE OF LIGHT (I AM HERE)

Wood (an oak), Lamp

90×80×300 cm, 90×200×90cm
400 kg, 300 kg