Tutankhamen's Garden Peas

Title	Tutankhamen's Garden Peas
Artist	加藤昭男　KATO Akio
Date	1996
Medium	bronze
Dimensions	145.0×85.0×124.0
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	JS199700005000
Summary	The artist collapsed with heart problems in 1995 and was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. He then slowly recovered from this life-threatening condition. This experience turned the artist away from his previous theme of mankind and nature to focus on the subject of life. And purely by chance, he received seeds from a descendent of a bean plant that had germinated over long years after having been discovered inside King Tutankhamen's burial goods in Egypt. In these seeds he saw the rebirth of life, and thought it was not a strange overlapping with his own experience. This work created sometime after his release from hospital, shows the wheel of life in the form of two subjects not often seen in sculpture, a butterfly and a bean plant. This work was thus an experiment on this theme. Formally, this work is a combination of linear and planar elements, as seen in the planar elements of the butterfly's wings and the bean leaves, meeting the linear elements of the long feelers of the butterfly and the curving tendrils of the bean plant.

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Native place	Seto, Aichi, JPN
Birth	1927
Dead place	Tokyo, JPN
Died	2015
Biography	Born in Seto, Aichi prefecture. First studied ceramics at the Kyoto College of Industry (present-day Kyoto Institute of Technology) and then after World War II entered as one of the first class students in the sculpture department of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. One year before his graduation, had his first work accepted for display in the Shinseisaku-kyokai exhibition, and then exhibited in each of their following exhibitions. Received the new artist's prizes in 1955 and 1956, and was elected a member of the group in 1958. In 1994, his Where was awarded the Nakahara Teijiro Prize. In 1957, married Tamiko, daughter of the painter Kitagawa Tamiji, and was then influenced by Kitagawa's works. This was not only a case of giving importance to formal issues, but also recognizing the importance of the psychological element within the expression. This is particularly in the case of the works created around 1965 on the theme of the relationship between people and nature. He continues to create sculptural works to this day on the relationship between these two elements, with his works displayed in one-man shows, outdoor sculpture exhibitions, and in permanent monumental installations.

Tutankhamen's Garden Peas

KATO Akio