Hidetoshi Nagasawa

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Hidetoshi Nagasawa ( Japanese 長澤英俊 , Nagasawa Hidetoshi * 30th October 1940 in Tōnei, Manchukuo (now Dongning , China ); † 24. March 2018 ) was a Japanese artist , in 1967 Italy was working.

life and work

Nagasawa was born in 1940 to Japanese parents in Manchukuo , where his father was stationed as a military doctor. During the Second World War , after the invasion by the Soviet Union, the family abruptly left the country and moved back to Japan, near Tokyo. Nagasawa studied architecture and interior design at the Tama School of Art until 1963 . Nagasawa belongs to the Gutai group and Neo-Dada . In 1964 Nagasawa decided to become a freelance artist. With five dollars in his pocket, he began a bicycle journey that lasted a year and a half. This bike tour took him through Asia (Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Greece and Italy). His journey came to an end in Milan. In Sesto San Giovanni he met Mario Nigro , Enrico Castellani , Antonio Trotta and Luciano Fabro . Since 1967 he worked in Italy. The themes of boat and travel run thematically through his work. Since 1972 he has been creating works of gold, marble, bronze and plastic as a sculptor. In the 1980s he began to work on the boundary between sculpture and architecture. The defining theme of the 1990s was gardens.

Nagasawa's first exhibition in Italy took place in 1967 at the Galleria Sincron in Brescia. Mainly conceptual works were shown. In 1968 he took part in the Anfo Art Festival with Marisa Merz , Getulio Alviani and Nanda Vigo . In 1970 Nagasawa participated in the Contemporary Japanese Art exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He took part in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (1972, 1978, 1982 and 1988) and the documenta IX in Kassel (1992).

From 1990 to 2002 Hidetoshi Nagasawa was professor at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. In 2004 he followed a call to the Tama Art School in Japan.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ È morto Hidetoshi Nagasawa. Il grande scultore giapponese aveva 78 anni. In: artslife.com. March 24, 2018, accessed March 25, 2018 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13th-20th September 1992 - catalog in three volumes, volume 1, page 189; Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0
  3. ↑ The artist Hidetoshi Nagasawa accessed on June 17, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ Galleria il ponte Hidetoshi Nagasawa accessed on June 17, 2016 (English)
  5. ↑ DestoBesser Hidetoshi Nagasawa , accessed June 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Teaching achievements and activities Nagasawa, Hidetoshi ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on June 17, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / faculty.tamabi.ac.jp
personal data
SURNAME Hidetoshi, Nagasawa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長 澤 英俊 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tōnei, Manchukuo (today: Dongning , People's Republic of China )
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2018