BITO TOSHIHIKO

• BITO TOSHIHIKO, a Japanese contemporary artist. Utilizing a diverse range of techniques, including a blend of tempera and oil painting as well as metal sculptures created through the lost-wax casting method, his work explores profound philosophical themes centered on life, nature, and the human body. His unique aesthetics and techniques have been highly acclaimed in numerous exhibitions.

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  • SUDA KOKUTA

    Kokuta Suda, Japanese Western-style painter. He has been active in the Bunten and Nitten exhibitions, as well as the Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Art and the International Exhibition of Japanese Art. He started out as a figurative painter, winning many special prizes at government exhibitions, but after 1949, he moved on to abstract paintings. His paintings are characterized by a strong and unrestrained touch, and have been exhibited at the Japan International Art Exhibition (1955-1966), the Sao Paulo Biennial (1957), the Houston Art Exhibition (1959), the Premio Lissone (1960), the Pittsburgh Carnegie Exhibition (1961), and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh (1961). His work has been exhibited in international exhibitions such as (Omitted) Major Collections: Museum of Modern Art, Saitama; Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City; Iida City Museum of Art; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Sakima Art Museum.

  • SEKINE NOBUO

    SEKINE NOBUO, was born in 1942, is a Japanese sculptor currently living in both Tokyo, Japan, and Los Angeles, California. He is one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.