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Tomio Miki

Tomio Miki (1937 - 1978) was active/lived in Japan.  Tomio Miki is known for Human ear image sculpture, political themes.

Tomio Miki (Japanese ? ? ??, Miki Tomio), sculptor, contemporary Japanese artist, born in 1937 in Tokyo and died in 1978.

After high school, Tomio Miki entered a hairdressing school in Tokyo. He is an entirely self-taught artist. In 1957, at the age of twenty, he exhibited at the independent exhibition of the Yomiuri newspaper. He is from the beginning of his work strongly marked by the current "anti-art". For example, it shows truck tires, empty whiskey bottles or crushed beer cans. Without being a member, he is very close to the avant-garde group Neo-Dada Organizers, created in 1960 and led by Ushio Shinohara.

In 1963, he feelt close to the High Red Center movement, created by Jirô Takamatsu. Tomio Miki went to the fire of tar-coated boards. The museum space is desacralized.

In 1964, he directed a solo exhibition at the Naika Art Gallery, Tokyo. He then exhibit a giant sculpture of more than 2m, in aluminum, representing a left human ear. These ear sculptures the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2879 characters.]  Artist bio

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