Artist:
Kan Yasuda
Title:
Secret of the Sky
Year:
2010
Adress:
Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku
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Classically trained in both Japan and Italy, Kan Yasuda (B. 1945) is one of the pre-eminent contemporary Japanese sculptors. His minimalist, smoothly undulating works in marble and bronze are critically acclaimed in his native Japan and throughout Europe.
Yasuda, who has maintained a studio in Pietrasanta, Italy, for over 40 years, explores a way of being through nature, and talks of being guided by the voices of ‘souls buried in the earth’. He says he works ‘by imagining what the stones might be saying.’
The pieces on show in Kan Yasuda | Touching Time, a private selling exhibition that runs until 26 March at Christie’s New York, are both monumental and domestic in scale, and, says Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s Deputy Chairman and Senior Advisor, ‘[They] benefit from careful contemplation and contract with the machine age architecture of New York City against which they exert a powerful spiritual force.’
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Kan Yasuda was born in the city of Bibai on Japan's nothern island Hokkaido in 1945. He received a master's degree in sculpture from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1969. He moved to Italy in 1970 on a fellowship from the Italian Government and studied with Professor Pericle Fazzini at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Afterwards he set up his studio at Pietrasanta in nothern Italy, world famous for its superior quality marble. There he continues to live and work at marble and bronze sculptures.
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The absorbing forms of Yasuda’s sculpture reflect elements of the natural world, which are designed to reflect the viewing experience. The pieces are both monumental and domestic in scale, and engaging in form and material. They benefit from careful contemplation and contract with the machine age architecture of New York City against which they exert a powerful spiritual force.
Classically trained in both Japan and Italy, Kan Yasuda (B. 1945) is one of the pre-eminent contemporary Japanese sculptors. His minimalist, smoothly undulating works in marble and bronze are critically acclaimed in his native Japan and throughout Europe.
Yasuda, who has maintained a studio in Pietrasanta, Italy, for over 40 years, explores a way of being through nature, and talks of being guided by the voices of ‘souls buried in the earth’. He says he works ‘by imagining what the stones might be saying.’
The pieces on show in Kan Yasuda | Touching Time, a private selling exhibition that runs until 26 March at Christie’s New York, are both monumental and domestic in scale, and, says Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s Deputy Chairman and Senior Advisor, ‘[They] benefit from careful contemplation and contract with the machine age architecture of New York City against which they exert a powerful spiritual force.’
www.kan-yasuda.co.jp:
Kan Yasuda was born in the city of Bibai on Japan's nothern island Hokkaido in 1945. He received a master's degree in sculpture from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1969. He moved to Italy in 1970 on a fellowship from the Italian Government and studied with Professor Pericle Fazzini at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Afterwards he set up his studio at Pietrasanta in nothern Italy, world famous for its superior quality marble. There he continues to live and work at marble and bronze sculptures.
www.christies.com:
The absorbing forms of Yasuda’s sculpture reflect elements of the natural world, which are designed to reflect the viewing experience. The pieces are both monumental and domestic in scale, and engaging in form and material. They benefit from careful contemplation and contract with the machine age architecture of New York City against which they exert a powerful spiritual force.