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Nobuo Sekine

Nobuo Sekine (1942 - 2019) was active/lived in Japan, United States.  Nobuo Sekine is known for Painting, movement (Mon) art, earthworks, environment.

Born in Saitama, Japan in 1942. After graduated with M.F.A. in Painting from Tama Art University in 1968, he started his career as a main artist of “Mono-ha” movement, which swept the art world from the 1960s to the 1970s.

In the same year, Sekine presented “Phase—Mother Earth” in Kobe, which marks the beginning of “Mono-ha” movement and it is evaluated as a monumental piece of postwar Japanese art. A series of painting “Phase of Nothingness” was chosen for the Venice Biennale in 1970 and a numbers of solo exhibitions were held subsequently in Europe.

Sekine established Environmental Art Studios, a public art agency in 1973 to produce landscapes and monuments for public spaces, and phase paintings. Solo exhibitions were held internationally since 1969, including the one at Kawagoe City Art Museum in 2003. Major group exhibition in recent years are the Busan Biennale (Korea), 2002; “A Secret of History of Clay,” the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 2004; “Mono-ha, Reconsidered”, t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3119 characters.]  Artist bio

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