• SUGAWARA Jiro

    CAREER1941
    Born in Nara, JAPAN
    1967
    Completed Graduate School of master’s program of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Sculpture
    1970-84
    Received Italian Government Grant to study in Milan, ITALY

    PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
    2004
    Gallery Seiho, Tokyo (’01/ ’98/ ’92/ ’88/ ’81)
    Gallery Yamaki, Osaka (’98/ ’92/ ’90)
    1989
    Gallery Arte Centro, Milano, ITALY (’83)
    1986
    Hibiya City, Tokyo
    Yurakucho-seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
    1980
    The Museum of Sassoferrato, Sassoferrato, ITALY
    1979
    The Municipal Museum of Macerata, Macerata, ITALY
    1978
    Gallery Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, HOLLAND (’76/ ’73)

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
    2004
    Two Men Exhibition by SUGAWARA Jiro and Masahiko TSUBOTA. Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo (’01/ ’95)
    2003
    The 5th Exhibition of Amabiki Village and Sculpture. Yamato, Ibaraki (’01/ ’99/ ’97-’98/ ’96)
    2002
    Sculptors of Eastern Japan. Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
    Sculpture Project of Busan Biennale 2002. Busan, KOREA
    1990
    Party Shibaura Art Festival. Toshiba building, Hamamatsu-cho, Tokyo (’89/ ’88/ ’87/ ’86)

    SYMPOSIUMS:
    1993
    International Sculpture Symposium. Showa Memorial Park, Tokyo
    Symposium of Creativity and Cognition. Laghboroh University, UK

  • KAMAE 2022―H

    Black Granite
    125×95×95 (h)cm

  • Searching

    Lime Stone
    60×58.5×89 (h)cm

  • A FOREST BREEZE 15-B, A FOREST WIND 15-C

    A FOREST BREEZE 15-B

    Limestone

    71×22×53 (h)cm

    A FOREST WIND 15-C

    Limestone

    135×30×90 (h)cm

  • INSIDE FORM-13PLS

    Limestone

    45×132×80 (h)cm

    The stone I used this time was softer than marble, I tried to creat a big form as possible and when narrowing it down, trying to find an equilibrium with the stone’s strength.
    I went as far as I thought I could get away with, while expressing the softness of the curved interior.

  • INSIDE FORM-10LS-CARPA

    Limestone

    79×73×146 (h)cm

    In my sculpture, I tried to leave a square stone form of outside while creating space and volume of free forms on the inside.
    My aim was to have balance between the geometric form of the exterior and the organic form of the interior, trying to emphasize that balance, coloring areas where I didn’t change, and left the carved parts in their original colors of the stone.

  • INSIDE FORM 08-3 ORGANO

    Brack granite

    88×58×147 (h)cm

    My idea for this work was to recognize the outside as a geometrically simple form and pursue a geometrically complex form on the inside.
    For the coloration, orange and white have been used for Japanese shrines since ancient times and, for me, they are the colours of Japan, so I used them as the theme colours for this work.

  • INSIDE FORM 06-1

    Black granite

    80×130×85 (h)cm

    My idea in producing this piece was to make the most of the bulk of the block of raw material, by creating a space within the mass.
    The result is a basket-like shape made of stone.
    I was aiming for a shape that would look like a combination of two triangular pyramids from a particular angle.

  • INSIDE FORM CU-GM

    Black granite

    90×90×90 cm
    about 400 kg

  • INSIDE FORM-3B

    Black granite

    120×150×92 cm
    700 kg

    Envisaging a large stone split into eight pieces, a composition of faces which did not previously exist is formed inside the original stone. That exists in the mind’s eye, but cannot be seen in its concreteness. Adding thickness to that form, I tried to carve it from one raw stone. Asking what it would be like if I added some holes to those faces, I arrived at my current piece of work.

  • BE A PYRAMID-GH-1

    Granite

    130×170×120 cm
    2300 kg

  • INSIDE OUT FMGG

    80×60×180 cm
    2000 kg

    Ginga – granite

  • INSIDE OUT

    INSIDE OUT FSG-2

    Black granite

    130×137×110 cm
    700 kg

    INSIDE OUT WSMG

    Black granite

    180×80×160 cm

    INSIDE OUT SSR

    Red granite

    230×80×161 cm