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OverviewThe work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979) is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood - geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition (Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki Minamoto, who was able to capture the magnificence of the mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects from the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, photographed by the French photographer Bertrand Michau. It is essential reading for lovers of surrealism and of the early years of twentieth-century abstraction as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship between art and mathematics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sophie Makariou , Osawa , Sebline , Benzoni-GavagePublisher: Galerie Mingei Imprint: Galerie Mingei Edition: Bilingual edition Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9782956615033ISBN 10: 2956615033 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 07 July 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationSylvie Benzoni-Gavage is a mathematician, professor at Universite Claude-Bernard Lyon I, and director of the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris; Sophie Makariou is president of the Musee national des arts asiatiques - Guimet; Kei Osawa is a researcher in art history and in aesthetics (Museum of University of Tokyo); Edouard Sebline is an independent scholar specializing in Man Ray, Dada and surrealism Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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