Nobuo Sekine

​“Phase of nothingness-Skin”

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September 7, 2024 (Sat.) - November 16, (Sat.)

Opening hours: 12:00-19:00

Closing date: Sundays & Mondays

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  YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new space at TERRADA ART COMPLEX, Tennozu, Tokyo. It will be located on the third floor of TERRADA ART COMPLEX II, one of the largest gallery complexes in Japan, which is home to many internationally renowned art galleries.

  YOD Gallery was established in Osaka in 2008 and has been actively disseminating new values and expressions domestically and internationally together with artists. In addition to these, we have opened new spaces YOD Editions (Osaka) in 2020 and YOD TOKYO (Omotesando, Tokyo) in 2022. We are working to organise a variety of exhibitions regardless of genre, so that we can function as a centre of next-generation culture for the world.

  YOD Gallery (Tokyo) will continue the spirit of YOD Gallery, which has been active for 16 years, by reviewing the ‘now’ while taking into account the history of art, and presenting exhibitions that find artists and works with a unique artistic vision, from the traditional to the experimental.

  The opening exhibition is entitled ‘Nobuo Sekine: Phase of nothingness-Skin’.

  Nobuo Sekine (1942-2019) completed his postgraduate studies in oil painting at Tama Art University in 1968 and became a leading artist of the Mono-ha movement that swept the art world in the 1960s and 1970s.In particular, his ‘Phase - Earth’ at the First Suma Detached Palace Park Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition in 1968 is regarded as the starting point of the Mono-ha movement and a monumental work in post-war Japanese art. In 1970, he became Japan's representative artist at the Venice Biennale, one of the world's three major biennales, further cementing his reputation. After moving to Los Angeles, he continued to work energetically until his death in 2019. The works on display in this exhibition are those Sekine worked on in his final years in Los Angeles.

  Sekine's work always reflects the traditional Eastern mentality, while at the same time paying homage to the surrounding environment and space.The area where YOD Gallery (Tokyo) is located is in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, which consists of old land and newly developed reclaimed land, and placing Sekine's works in a gallery space that used to be a warehouse standing on top of it is expected to create a new meaning.

  The exhibition will feature approximately 30 works by Sekine, including works from the ‘Phase of nothingness-Skin’ series and drawings of her creative process. Please take the opportunity to visit the exhibition.

 

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