photo: WATANABE Osamu
117 square vase prototypes
| Artist | HASUDA Shugoro |
|---|---|
| Material/ Technique | plaster (partial paint), metal |
| Copyright Notice | © HASUDA Sue |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2010 |
| Description | Born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan in 1915. Died in Kanagawa in 2010. Hasuda Shugoro, bor n in Kanazawa in 1915, graduated in design and painting from Ishikawa Prefectural Industrial School and entered the metal casting section in the craft department of Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1933. Hasuda considered craft to be a form of fine art and quickly obtained an excellent reputation for his work. His series of “Square Vases,” begun in 1960, solidified that reputation. Hasuda’s dynamic formal sense led him to go beyond craft and create large, ambitious sculptural monuments placed in outdoor environments. He received the Order of Cultural Merit in 1991. The “Square Vase” series is representative of the work of Hasuda Shugoro, an artist who revolutionized the world of traditional Japanese metal craft and elevated it to a pure contemporary art form. Hasuda was attracted by the soft textures of wood in Japanese architecture, and the ridge lines of his "Square Vases" have an organic appearance. The flat surfaces of the "Square Vases" bring out the complex material qualities of different metals, shudo (red copper), rogin (hazy silver), and bronze, and create a strong visual impact. The formal beauty of Hasuda’s "Square Vases" is concentrated in the original forms he produced for casting. The 117 originals, which were kept by the artist, resemble the forms of the monuments and environmental art projects that he began to produce in the 1970s. |
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