Kouichi Fine Arts – Art & Crea Gallery

Kouichi Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition “Ten Decades” of precious masterpieces by Masayuki Nagare.

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Masayuki Nagare was a modernist Japanese sculptor, nicknamed “Samurai Artist” for his commitment to traditional Japanese aesthetics. Nagare’s art is strongly influenced by Shintoism, Zen Buddhism, and traditional Japanese martial arts.

Masayuki Nagare’s sculpture, regardless of size, is highly inventive and sophisticated, highly controlled and thought-through to the last, apparently accidental detail. It is rarely descriptive or representational, but rather evokes associations with underlying ideas or emotional currents. Its great strength lies in the fact that it never looses contact with the basic creative forces in our lives. These formal and perfect stones are never remote or impersonal, but radiate warmth and compassion.

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About Masayuki Nagare:

Masayuki Nagare began using the technique of warehada in the early 1950s. It means that the work is unfinished by leaving the part where the stone is broken. Many of Nagare’s works are made of heavy stones, but they have been designed to make them look lighter, such as a shape that makes them appear to float unexpectedly. In 1963, he brought 600 tons of stone from Japan to the Japan Pavilion at the World Expo in New York and created a huge sculpture called Stone Crazy.