Michiko Nakatani

Japan

In 2010, she received the VOCA Exhibition Incentive Award, and in 2012, she completed the Meisterschülerstudium program at the Dresden University of Art and Design.
Unlike general reliefs, this product produces three-dimensional works with inverted ruggedness. The image is molded with clay and molded with gypsum. The original clay is removed and a transparent resin is poured into an empty female mold. It continues to question the "absence" and "reality" of objects. In 2014, I moved to an empty house in Mie Prefecture where my grandfather lived. Every year on Respect-for-the-Aged Day, works are exhibited at the renovated factory "Omuro private art museum". 

武蔵野美術大学大学院修了。
80年代の活動当初から鉄という素材に魅了され、溶断と溶接を繰り返しながら作品を制作している。
素材本来の硬質感や重量感、彫刻＝塊という概念からも解放され、空間を変容させていく。
“場”を深く観察し、可視、不可視に関わらずそこに存在するものを取り込み、
独自の世界を構築する。
近年は石膏、ガラスなど異素材の作品も発表。
主な受賞歴に、芸術選奨文部大臣新人賞、毎日芸術賞、中原悌二郎賞。

In 2010, she received the VOCA Exhibition Incentive Award, and in 2012, she completed the Meisterschülerstudium program at the Dresden University of Art and Design.
Unlike general reliefs, this product produces three-dimensional works with inverted ruggedness. The image is molded with clay and molded with gypsum. The original clay is removed and a transparent resin is poured into an empty female mold. It continues to question the "absence" and "reality" of objects. In 2014, I moved to an empty house in Mie Prefecture where my grandfather lived. Every year on Respect-for-the-Aged Day, works are exhibited at the renovated factory "Omuro private art museum".