• FURUKAWA Jun

    Link to: ATERIER CRIU

    CAREER1967
    Born in Tochigi, JAPAN
    1991
    Graduated from Sculpture Department of Musashino Art University

    PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
    2006
    Kyohan Six Gallery. Tochigi
    1996
    Gallery An Adan. Ibaraki
    1995
    Art Space Jyonaisaka. Tochigi

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
    2003
    The 5th Exhibition of Amabiki Village and Sculpture. Ibaraki (’01)
    Art Walk 2003 “Open Studio in Tochigi”. Tochigi (00′)
    2001
    Door to millennium:Tochigi in the 20th century II Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts. Tochigi
    2000
    The 3rd Art Festival of Yurinkan. Gunma
    Exhibision of Hakugakai. Tochigi（’98/ ’96/ ’94)
    1991
    Kodaira Open Air Sculpture Exhibition. Tokyo (’90/ ’88)
    1990
    Stone Sculpture Exhibition by Two Artists. Tokyo
    SYMPOSIUMS:
    1998
    Artists’ Camp in Kasama. Ibaraki (’97- ’94)
    1995
    IPCL International Sculpture Symposium. Nagothane, INDIA
    1992
    Krastal International Sculpture Symposium. Krastal, AUSTRIA
    1990
    Symposium in Iwama. Ibaraki

    COMPETITION:
    1997
    The 17th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture (Excellent Model). Yamaguchi

  • a memory of the path

    Black granite, Lead

    Installation size

    That black, tilted house stood silently, unused. In a small space next to it, a rusty two-wheeled cart is buried in the long grass. If you ask, that used to be the route the horses took to reach the house. By placing my work there, I was pleased to think that I was writing a new memory onto that road.

  • Weighing The Earth (An accident on the surface of the earth)

    Stone

    Installation size

    If you change your point of view for a moment, even though you haven’t changed where you are, the things you had been looking at can suddenly look completely different, and you might feel as though you have suddenly arrived at a different place. You may feel a quiet rush of excitement. Perhaps the truth is found lying somewhere in a corner of a common scenery.

  • Weighing the Earth (USHIRONOSHYOUMEN)

    Stone

    80×100×60 cm
    1030 kg

    5P. Size and weight are about the largest stone.
    “Stone as the object of speculation”
    While I walked round and round a stone, I noticed that what I wanted to check was not just the inside and the surface of the stone, but also what was around it. I thought I wanted to look out from inside the stone at the changing seasons, and at the expressions of the scenery and the people.

  • Weighing the earth (and myself)

    Black granite

    100×330×20 cm

    Carved own weight of each stones on face
    These are weight-stones for measuring the weight of the Earth. I think it might serve as an opportunity to imagine this globe that I’m standing on. If I made many pieces like this, would they give a feeling of the weight of the Earth? Sometimes I try thinking about foolish things like that. Earth is drawn to this stone by gravity, which made me notice that all objects in everyday life are in the same kind of relationship.
    But if I make too many, the weights themselves would become the world next…