HIRATO Koji
| CAREER | 1958 Born in Chiba, JAPAN 1982 Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Sculpture 1984 Completed the Master Program of Tokyo Univercity of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Sculpture PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS: 2001 LIFE'S ORIGIN. Metal Art Museum Hikarinotani, Chiba LIFE'S ORIGIN. Gallery Tsubaki, Chiba 1998 SHAPES OF LIFE 1994-1998. Gallery Surge, Tokyo 1994 SHAPES OF LIFE. Gallery Mutsu, Chiba SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2004 3 person's Sculpture "Japan malaise". Takashimaya, Tokyo ('02) 2000 Pleasure of creative skill. Gallery Surge, Tokyo 1999 The 24th Exhibition of Koku-Ten. Isetan Museum, Tokyo ('96/ '97/ '98) 1997 Chiba Art Frash '97 "Fault dynamics". Chiba citizens Gallery, Chiba 1996 France-Japon Échange d'art Contemporain. Paris, Kyoto ('95) 1984 The 15th International Art Exhibition of Japan. Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Kyoto Museum of Art ART WORKS FOR PUBLIC FACILITIES AND COLLECTIONS: 2005 Osaka Suijo Rinpokan, Osaka 2004 Terada Collection, Tokyo 2003 Aoba no Mori Hospital, Chiba 1995 Jury of Peace City Proclamation Monument Design Idea Competition, Ohara Station Plaza, Chiba 1994 Lake Place Park, City of Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A. "Duluth-Ohara Sister Cities Monuments Exchange Program" |
AMABIKI 2006
CULTIVATION
Brass, Steel, Copper
60×3600×340 (h)cm
I found a road that came to a dead end. The forest is ahead of me, and behind me I see the road of fresh asphalt that I had just walked on. The forest suddenly blocks the road that is trying to move ahead as if it were expected to do so. It is a bizarre space. In this place where the energies of nature and humanity are condensed, I felt the presence of something enough to nurture the next kind of energy.