Susumu
Koshimizu
Susumu
Koshimizu
Koshimizu
Japanese, born in 1944
Susumu Koshimizu combines contrasting materials in minimalist sculptures and installations. He thus blends natural materials like wood, iron, stone and paper with industrial objects. By staging their contrasting effects, he exalts the physicality and qualities inherent in each of these elements.
Considered a key member of Mono-ha, a major Japanese artistic movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Koshimizu undertakes to explore the interdependence of components both formally distinct and of opposite nature. This work that juxtaposes the artificial and the natural leads the Mono-ha artists towards new and unexpected spatial explorations.
The work of Susumu Koshimizu was first presented by the Pinault Collection at the “Prima Materia” (“Raw Material”) exhibition at the Punta della Dogana, Venice.
Considered a key member of Mono-ha, a major Japanese artistic movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Koshimizu undertakes to explore the interdependence of components both formally distinct and of opposite nature. This work that juxtaposes the artificial and the natural leads the Mono-ha artists towards new and unexpected spatial explorations.
The work of Susumu Koshimizu was first presented by the Pinault Collection at the “Prima Materia” (“Raw Material”) exhibition at the Punta della Dogana, Venice.
