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Susumu Koshimizu

Susumu Koshimizu (Born 1944) is active/lives in Japan.  Susumu Koshimizu is known for Sculpture and installation art of basic materials, anti-modernism.

Over the course of his career, Susumu Koshimizu has worked mainly with natural materials like wood, iron, stone and paper, presenting them in unexpected circumstances and combining them with industrial materials. In the way he combines materials, he plays with contrast, exploring and exalting their characteristic elements.

He is one of the principal artists associated with the Mono-ha movement, and amongst them, unique as well for having been the only artist to have trained in sculpture, studying at the Tama Art University in Tokyo in the late 1960s. Amongst the artists of the Mono-ha movement, he single-handedly reevaluated the art of sculpture in Japan in the 1970s within an artistic environment that was increasingly enamoured with the possibilities of conceptual art.

In 1975, Koshimizu went into an intense period of study at a pottery production site in Shigaraki, a mountain village near Kyoto and it was there he made various forms of earthenware basins. He fille   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4442 characters.]  Artist bio

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