Steel Work #272

Title	Steel Work #272
Artist	久野真　KUNO Shin
Date	1975
Medium	stainless steel on board
Dimensions	160.0×130.0
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	JS200100001000
Summary	Kuno first worked in plaster, and then changed his expressive materials to iron and then onto lead. After his close to one year spent studying in New York, he briefly moved away from metal materials in the works he created immediately after his return to Japan. However, such works were just a brief hiatus, and by the 1970s he had returned to creating works from metal materials. Then he began to work with the new material of stainless steel, a fascination he first developed in New York. He was mainly interested in the metal's ability to avoid rust and corrosion. This work made from stainless steel has an array of irregularly placed, unsequenced geometrically shaped, sharp pieces sticking out to create a sense unbalanced, and yet somehow, stable space through just so lines. The artist consciously denies logical, formative thoughts based on western art's set of established rules, and rather, seeks a new form of painterly space within the object born from an unstable, inharmonious world.

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Native place	Nagoya, Aichi, JPN
Birth	1921
Dead place	Nagoya, Aichi, JPN
Died	1998
Biography	Born in Nagoya. In 1943 graduated from the arts department of Tokyo University of Education (present-day Tsukuba University), and then entered the navy as a student trainee. Spent the end of the war as a military pilot instructor in the special attack corps. After the end of the war, entered works in the Shinseisaku-kyokai exhibitions (1952-60), and received new artist awards for his abstract form steel works. From the latter half of the 1950s through the first half of the 1960s, was caught up in the Art Informel movement, as his works displaying new potentials in painterly expression drew popular acclaim. Then, from the 1960s through the 1970s, he held a series of one-man shows overseas, and entered works in invitational exhibitions. In 1966 he received a Rockefeller Foundation Japan Society scholarship and was able to spend some time studying in New York. After returning to Japan he began to use stainless steel as his medium, establishing his unique painterly viewpoint which kept a sense of the three-dimensional in the two dimensional form.

Steel Work #272

KUNO Shin