1. Nobuo Sekine was a Japanese sculptor who resided in both Tokyo, Japan, and Los Angeles, California.
17 Facts About Nobuo Sekine
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Nobuo Sekine was born in 1942 in Shiki City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
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Nobuo Sekine was included in the seminal Tricks and Vision: Stolen Eyes group exhibition held at Tokyo Gallery and Muramatsu Gallery in 1968.
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Nobuo Sekine held his first solo exhibition at Tokyo Gallery the following year.
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The major turning point in Nobuo Sekine's career came in October 1968, when he created the work Phase: Mother Earth in Kobe's Suma Rikyu Park for the First Open Air Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition.
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At the time, Nobuo Sekine knew virtually nothing about Land Art.
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When Nobuo Sekine finished the work something unexpected happened: he was simply stunned by the sheer power of the 'thing' before him.
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Nobuo Sekine recently likened it to an 'accident' that hit him over the course of a week, though at the time he was unable to put into words the impact he felt.
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Nobuo Sekine knew he now faced a different issue, yet his interest continued to centre on topological space.
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In July 1970, along with Shusaku Arakawa, Nobuo Sekine was chosen to exhibit at the Japan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
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Nobuo Sekine contributed Phase of Nothingness, which consisted of a large stone placed on top of a tall square column of mirrored stainless steel.
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Nobuo Sekine was scheduled to participate in the International Symposium in the Venice Biennal, at which he is expected to construct a work similar to the one he exhibited at the Hakone Open-Air Museum this last year.
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Yoshiaki Tono referred to a roundtable discussion held on the occasion of the Ninth Contemporary Art Exhibit, known as Mainichi-ten that commenced in May 1969 where Nobuo Sekine mentioned a changing face of art production and renounced the position of the modern subject that has been passed down since the Renaissance period.
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In November 1968, Nobuo Sekine met the Korean-born artist Lee Ufan, who was to be of central importance to Mono-ha and the articulation of its ideas.
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Nobuo Sekine knew, from his study of the postwar avant-garde, that a new art like his needed an equally new language in order for him to make a lasting mark in history.
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Nobuo Sekine died on May 13,2020, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 76.
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Nobuo Sekine's work is in the collection of numerous museums, including:.