Japanese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1947, in Shizuoka.
Installation artist, environmental artist.
In 1989, Katase’s installations were exhibited at
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Japanese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1953, on Hokkaido Island.
Installation artist, environmental artist.
Kawamata graduated from the painting section of the Tokyo University of Fine Art in 1979. In addition to his main activity in Japan, his work is often seen abroad. In 1982...
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Japanese, 20th century, male.
Active in the USA from 1958.
Born 4 March 1932, in Nagoya (Aichi Prefecture).
Painter, installation artist, environmental artist.
Minimal Art.
After graduating from Tokyo fine arts univesity, Tadaaki Kuwayama settled in New York. He initially painted Abstracts in a style based on a deliberately ‘anti-spiritual’ attitude designed to make the work foreign to the artist’s spirit. Subsequently he created installations and environments, making geometric spatial constructions out of small aluminium modules, as in ...
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Japanese, 20th century, male.
Active in Italy from 1967.
Born 1940, in Tonei (Manchuria).
Sculptor, painter, environmental artist.
Nagasawa Hidetoshi studied at the Tama fine arts school in Tokyo. He subsequently went to Europe and settled in Milan, where he worked with Fabro, an artist of the Arte Povera movement....
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Japanese, 20th century, male.
Born 28 January 1927, in Tokyo; died 14 April 2001, in Tokyo.
Sculptor, environmental artist, film maker, flower arranger.
Teshigahara Hiroshi was caught up in 1960s international art but also attached to Japanese tradition: he would invite Rauschenberg and Cage to Tokyo while teaching the art of flower arrangement at the Ikebana School. He created avant-garde environments but used natural components fully in the spirit of Japanese tradition, such as green bamboo....
