Toshikatsu Endo

Toshikatsu Endō ( Japanese 遠藤 利克 , Endō Toshikatsu ; * 1950 in Takayama , Gifu Prefecture ) is a Japanese sculptor .

life and work

From 1970 to 1972 Toshikatsu Endō studied sculpture at the Nagoya School of Fine Arts ( Nagoya Junior College of Plastic Arts ). He teaches sculpture at their mother university, the Zokei University in Nagoya . In 1975 he had his first solo exhibition at the Lunami Gallery in Tokyo.

Toshikatsu Endō uses the elements water, wood, earth and fire for his large-format sculptures and installations. Endo is influenced by nature , Shinto , Zen and minimalism .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1986 National Museum of Modern Art , Tokyo
• 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
• 1988 45th Biennale di Venezia , Venice
• 1990 46th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
• 1993 Invisible Nature Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
• 1994 22nd São Paulo Biennial , São Paulo
• 2006 Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection - National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• 2011 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
• 2013 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
• 2015 Nicola Carrino , Toshikatsu Endo, Karl Prantl , New Museum Nuremberg

literature

• Earth, air, fire, water: The sculpture of Toshikatsu Endo , Douglas Hyde Gallery (1991), ISBN 978-0-90686-0-175

Web links

• Website Toshikatsu Endō (Japanese, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 遠藤 利克 ENDO TOSHIKATU ー 彫刻家 . (No longer available online.) Nagoya Zokei University, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved October 20, 2015 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ documenta 8, catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 66; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
3. ↑ artsy Toshikatsu Endō accessed on October 19, 2015 (English)
4. ↑ artfacts Toshikatsu Endō accessed on October 19, 2015