1. Noriyuki Haraguchi was a Japanese artist who is known as a leading figure of Mono-ha and Post-mono-ha, with a precise attention paid to the materials used, their spatial arrangement, the relationship with the exhibition space and the processual reach of the artistic practice.
When Haraguchi was born, the port was already used by the American army.
Noriyuki Haraguchi spent his childhood in Hokkaido, where his father worked as a radar technician.
Noriyuki Haraguchi graduated in 1970, his major being oil painting.
Noriyuki Haraguchi was associated with Mono-ha, a 1960s art movement in Japan and Korea that explored the correlations between the natural and industrial worlds.
Noriyuki Haraguchi was a central figure of the Nichidai Connection, composed of students of the fine arts department at the Nihon University.
Noriyuki Haraguchi often recreated detritus from airplanes, ships and weapons of mass destruction in his sculptures, such as A-7 E Corsair II, Tsumu 147, and Battleship Ref.
Noriyuki Haraguchi's iconic sculpture A-4E Skyhawk was a reproduction at full-scale of the US Navy fighter jet of the same name.
Noriyuki Haraguchi's best known work is Oil Pool, that was first shown in Kassel, Germany at Documenta 6.
Noriyuki Haraguchi performed this piece in 1975 and 1976 in the Nirenoko Gallery and in the Maki Gallery in Tokyo, moving twenty-seven steel plates around in the space, thereby "occupying" the floor and the walls in a variety of configurations.
Noriyuki Haraguchi's work seems to progress in cycles, as a performance of devotional repetition, always seeking to produce something new in the process.
Noriyuki Haraguchi's work has been described as simultaneously personal and political; as his birthplace, Yokosuka, is a port city where the United States deployed its forces during the Vietnam war era.
Noriyuki Haraguchi's work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate Museum, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Stadtische Galerie, Munich, Documenta 6, Kassel, Biennale de Paris, and other venues.
Noriyuki Haraguchi's work is in the collection of the Tate Modern Museum, London and the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands.