Tatsuo Kawaguchi

Japan

Born in Kobe in 1940. Graduated from Tama Art University.
One of Japan's leading contemporary artists who have worked in Japan and overseas since the 1960s. Created a “relationship” between “visible” and “invisible”. Covering seeds with lead, wrapping lotus buds with beeswax, frothing fossils, etc. to stir up the audience's imagination, and various consciousness of the audience (time and space awareness, aesthetics, view of life and death, etc.) I wake up. Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba, Professor since 2014, Kanazawa College of Art.

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。

Born in Kobe in 1940. Graduated from Tama Art University.
One of Japan's leading contemporary artists who have worked in Japan and overseas since the 1960s. Created a “relationship” between “visible” and “invisible”. Covering seeds with lead, wrapping lotus buds with beeswax, frothing fossils, etc. to stir up the audience's imagination, and various consciousness of the audience (time and space awareness, aesthetics, view of life and death, etc.) I wake up. Professor Emeritus, University of Tsukuba, Professor since 2014, Kanazawa College of Art.