Nobuo Sekine

A founding member of the Mono-ha (School of Things) movement, Nobuo Sekine is a contemporary Japanese artist, renowned for his exploration of the relationship between natural and man-made materials, pertaining to the spaces that they inhabit. Working across sculpture and multi-media wall pieces, Sekine has explained: “I believe that my job is to convey the richness of nature to viewers” - one of his most important works, Phase – Mother Earth, evokes the idea of a utopian society and the aura of mythology through his bare, yet well-constructed placement of stone and earth. A fellow artist and one of Sekine’s influences, Lee Ufan, was a co-founder of the Mono-ha movement; with Ufan’s philosophical input regarding self-awareness and natural phenomena, Sekine found the catalyst and the channel through which he could project his own love of nature and the values that it represents. (Artist website)