ONOSATO TOSHINOBU

• ONOSATO TOSHINOBU, Japanese abstract painter and artist. He established a mosaic-like geometric abstract style, working with silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut techniques, and represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1966. Major Collections: Guggenheim Museum, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

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  • SUGA KISHIO

    SUGA KISHIO, born in Iwate Prefecture, is a contemporary Japanese artist and one of the key figures of Mono-ha, an artistic movement that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s. He boldly uses space and combines everyday objects such as wood, stone, and metal to create his works. Major collections: The Dallas Museum of Art; Tate Gallery; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Chiba City Museum of Art; and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.

  • SEKINE NOBUO

    SEKINE NOBUO was a Japanese sculptor and one of the key figures of Mono-ha, an artistic movement that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s and developed through the 1970s. Mono-ha artists explored the relationships between natural and industrial materials, using materials such as stone, steel, glass, wood, paper, cotton, wire, rope, oil, and water, often presenting them in largely unaltered states. Their works focused not only on the materials themselves, but also on the relationships between objects and the surrounding space. Through these practices, Mono-ha invited a reconsideration of the relationships between nature and the artificial, matter and space.