• 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

  • 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.

  • Spirit of wolf

    F.R.P.

    300×240×240 (h)cm

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Chair of God

    Zelkova

    250×240×450 cm
    2500 kg

  • MESSAGE OF LIGHT (I AM HERE)

    Wood (an oak), Lamp

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