Takayasu Itoh "From Painting to Environment"
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
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Takayasu Ito (1935-1985) was a sculptor from Akashi city. After graduating from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, he became a remarkable artist who painted with plaster and plastics, and sculpted objects with a theme of "an infinite space". He also worked on environmental design and film, but passed away at age 50. This exhibition features a variety of Takayasu Ito's work.
[Image: "Two Half Spheres That Co-exist" (1968) (C)Lyuta Itou 2007]
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from December 01, 2007 to March 09, 2008
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Japan Times Art Brief
By Matthew Larking
The search for a more physical expression led Itoh to bunch up canvases into creases, and later work gradually assumed a fuller 3-D form, abandoning flatness completely for the layering of surfaces ...