NOBUO SEKINE

April 4, 2019

Andy WarholPhase Conception: Spring Sea, 1988 Gold foil, acrylic paint on layers of thick hand-made Japanese paper 64 x 89 x 2.5 in.

Phase Conception by Nobuo Sekine — Nobuo Sekine
*Phase Conception*
1988
Gold foil, acrylic paint on layers of thick Japanese hand-made paper
64 x 89 x 2.5 in. (163 x 226 x 6.4 cm), detail

Nobuo Sekine
*Phase Conception*
1988
Gold foil, acrylic paint on layers of thick Japanese hand-made paper
31.5 x 25.7 in (80.1 x 65.2 cm)

Born 1942 in Saitama prefecture, Japan.

Graduated in 1968 with a M.F.A. in Painting, studying under artist Yoshishige Saito.

From 1968 into the 1970s, Sekine worked internationally as a central figure of “Mono-ha” (translated literally as “School of Things”), a movement considered instrumental in the formation of postwar Japanese art. Phase—Mother Earth, an earthwork first constructed in Suma Rikyu Park, Kobe, in 1968, is widely recognized as marking the beginning of Mono-ha, and as one of the most iconic works of this period in Japan.

In 1970, Sekine represented Japan in the Venice Biennale with Phase of Nothingness, consisting of a large natural stone supported by a mirrored stainless steel column. The sculpture is now in the permanent collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. Sekine remained in Europe after the Biennale, exhibiting in Italy, Switzerland, and Denmark. Informed by his observations on art and architecture, urban and public space in Europe, Sekine returned to Japan to establish Environmental Art Studios, a public art agency, in 1973.

From 1978 to 1979, Sekine returned to Europe for the traveling exhibition of his work Phase of Nothingness—Black. The solo exhibition toured from the Künsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany, to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands; and the Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway.

In 1993, Sekine and Phase—Mother Earth were cited by 30 participating critics, curators, and journalists in the survey “Sengo bijutsu besuto ten” (Postwar art best ten), featured in the prominent art magazine Bijutsu Shinchō.

In 2001, Sekine was included in the exhibit Century City at the Tate Modern, London, for his critical role in the burgeoning Tokyo art scene between 1969 and 1973. He also participated in the Gwangju Biennale, Korea, the same year.

Selected exhibitions of Sekine and Mono-ha include Reconsidering Mono-ha, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 2005; What is Mono-Ha? Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, Beijing, 2007; Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2012; Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, 2013; Prima Materia, Punta Della Dogana, Venice, 2013; Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s,The Rachofsky Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, 2013.

Sekine is currently Visiting Professor at Tama Art University and Kobe Design University.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Re-creations 1970/2011, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan Monogatari, Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai,China

2010 BE-UP-ART, Tokyo, Japan
2009 Center Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan

2008 Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Art Composition, Tokyo, Japan

PYO Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007 Center Gallery, Yokohama, Japan Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan

Shina Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2006 Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan

2005 Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan
MANIF 11! ’05 SEOUL, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2004 Movement, Feeling, Environment, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Beijing,China Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan

Phase of Nothingness – Black from ’78-’79 solo exhibition in Europe, Kamakura Gallery, Kamakura, Japan

2003 Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan 2001 Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan
1999 Museum Shokyodo, Aichi, Japan
1998 Saint Paul Gallery, Maebashi, Japan

1997 Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan

1996 Archaeology of Phase – Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan

1995 Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan Galleri Akern, Kongsberg, Norway

1994 Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan

1993 Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1992 Museum Shokyodo, Aichi, Japan
Nobuo Sekine, Soko Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1991 Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan
Tenmaya Department Store, Okayama, Japan

Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan

1990 Tenjuen, Niigata, Japan
Soko Museum, Niigata, Japan Atelier Gallery, Niigata, Japan

Sogo Department Store, Hiroshima, Japan
Seibu Department Store – Studio 5, Tokyo,Japan Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo, Japan

1989 Kodosha, Ichinoseki, Japan Gallery Lamia, Tokyo, Japan

Chikugo Gallery, Kurume, Japan
Mitsui Gallery, Matsudo, Japan
Gallery TAK, Yokohama, Japan
Susono Art House, Susono, Japan
Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kobundo Gallery, Obihiro, Japan Gojuichiban-kan Gallery, Aomori, Japan Gallery Picasso, Maebashi, Japan Katsuyama Isozaki Hall, Fukui, Japan Stempfli Gallery, New York, New York Umeda Modern Art Museum, Osaka, Japan

1988 Gallery M, Obama, Japan
Art Dune, Hamamatsu, Japan

Kozaido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Nishida Gallery, Nara, Japan
Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Anshindo Gallery, Shizuoka, Japan Gallery Kura, Kitakyushu, Japan We Gallery, Omiya, Japan

1987 Ginza Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo Gallery Te, Tokyo, Japan

Kawagoe Gallery, Kawagoe, Japan Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985 Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Sekine and Environment Art Studio, Stripe House Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1982 Sekine’s Prints and Sculptures: Cross Country 7500Km, Keneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1981 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1980 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1978 Nobuo Sekine: Skulptor 1975-1978, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk Denmark; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway

1977 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1976 Gallery Dori, Tokyo, Japan

1975 Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1973 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1971 Gallery Krebs, Bern, Switzerland Gallery Birch, Copenhagen, Denmark

1970 Galleria La Bertesca, Genova, Italy Genoa Gallery Modulo, Milan, Italy

1969 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 Group “Genshoku” and Ishiko Junzo 1966-1971, Shizuoka PrefecturalMuseum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan

Mono-ha, Tabloid Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mono-ha by Anzai: Photographs 1970-1976, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo,Japan Other Primary Structures (Others 2: 1967 – 1970), Jewish Museum,
New York, NY
Mono-ha Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karuizawa, Japan
The Hara Museum Collection at 35, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Tricks and Vision to Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan Parallel Views: Italian and Japanese Art from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX

2012 Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Haus der Kunst, Munich

Tokyo 1955-1970, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California The ‘70s in Japan: 1968-1982, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
The Artists of Mono-ha and Its Era, Rakusui-tei Museum of Art, Toyama,Japan

2011 Gallery’s Collection Exhibition: Mono-ha, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo,Japan

2010 Masan Munsin International Sculpture Symposium, Munsin Art Museum, Masan, Korea

Tokyo Gallery + BTAP 60th Anniversary Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
Yanpyon Environment Festival, Korea
Printing Exhibition of Shanghai World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China

Micro Salon 60, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Drawing Story I 1960–1990, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Tamagawa Art Line Project, Tokyo, Japan
Art Scene Revived, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo, Japan

2007 What is Mono-ha?, Beijing Tokyo Art Project, Beijing,China
Nobuo Sekine & Mitsukuni Takimoto, Yokohama Portside Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

2006 Public Art, Gallery NOVITA, Aomori, Japan
Memorial for Yoshiaki Tono, Gallery TOM, Tokyo, Japan

Mono-ha: Lee Ufan, Kishio Suga, Nobuo Sekine – from the 1970’s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005 Reconsidering Mono-ha, National Museum of Art, Osaka,Japan

2004 Kim Tschang-Yeul, Sekine Nobuo & Susumu Sakaguchi, Gallery Bijutsu Sekai, Tokyo, Japan

The New Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery + BTAP, Tokyo,Japan

2003 The 20th Anniversary of Gallery Q, Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Sculpture Project, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Memorial for Yoshishige Saito, Kawamura Gakuen Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan

2001 Century, Tate Modern Art Gallery, London, UK Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Mono-ha, Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Retrospective Exhibition for Nagaoka Museum Prize 1964-68, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Niigata, Japan

2000 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Modern Art of Japan: Monet de Paris, French National Mint Bureau, Paris, France

1998 Lumieves – Light – Rediscovery of Stained Glass, TN Probe, Tokyo, Japan 1997 Modern Art from a Collector’s View Point: Yamamura Collection, Hyogo

Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan Street Museum, Kawagoe, Japan

1996 Inside and the Outside of Art, Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1970-Material and Perception – Mono-ha and Artists Who Ask Root, Saint Ratienu Museum, France

1995 Archeology of Phase – Mother Earth, Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya, Japan

Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

46th Venice Biennale: ASIANA Contemporary Art from The Far East, Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, Venice, Italy
Matter and Perception 1970: Mono-ha and the Search for Fundamentals, Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Gifu, Japan; traveled to Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Museum of Modern Art Sain-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France

1994 Landscape of Stone, Dockyard Garden, The Landmark Tower Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Different Natures, La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Memorial for Yaeko Fujita: Artists and Sakura Gallery, Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Japanese Art after 1945: Scream against the Sky, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama; traveled to Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
ASIANA Contemporary Art from the Far East, Parazzo, Italy

1993 Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Konishi Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Oomitsu Collection, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Differentes Natures, Visions de l’Art Contemporain, Galerie Art 4 et Galerie de l’Esplanade, Paris, France
Exposition Différentes Natures, Galerie Art La Defense, Paris, France

1992 Avantguardie Giapponesi degli anni 70, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna di Bologna; traveled to Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1991 Gallery Gen-Group Show, Tokyo, Japan
70’s-80’s Contemporary Art: Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1990 Yokohama Business Park, Yokohama, Japan

1989 Japanese Open-Air Sculptures, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

1988 Mono-ha: La Scuola delle cose, Museum Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, Rome Italy

Seen by Hands, Seibu Department Store, Yurakucho, Tokyo,Japan

1987 Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha, Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Nobuo Sekine and Koji Enokura Recent Print Works, Naruse Murata Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gallery Group Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo,Japan

1986 Mono-ha, Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lee Ufan, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga: Methods of the 1970s, Soh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Le Japon des Avant-Gardes, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1984 Human Documents ’84/’85-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art of Present Time. Wood and Paper-Dialogue with Nature, Gifu Prefectural Museum, Gifu, Japan
Development of Contemporary Sculpture, Gallery Seiho, Tokyo,Japan Sculpture Japonaise Contemporaine, Galerie Jullien-Cornic, Paris, France

1983 Figure of Wood and Esprit, Saitama Prefectural Museum, Tokyo,Japan

1981 Turning Point of Contemporary Art of 1960’s, National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan Modern Japanese Sculpture, Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa, Japan

Japanese Contemporary Art, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The 1960’s: A Decade of Change in Contemporary Japanese Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1980 History of Contemporary Sculpture, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

1977 Japan Art-Festival, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan Voices in the Modern Age

Tokyo Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1976 10th International Biennale Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museumof Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1975 Contemporary Art Exhibition from 1950 to 1975, Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1974 Two-Man Show with Kuniichi Sima, Gallery Coco, Kyoto, Japan 11th Tokyo Biennale, Tokyo, Japan

Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition of 20 Artists, Tokyo Central Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Art Exhibition, Germany
Contemporary Sculpture Symposium, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan

1973 8th Japan Art-Festival, Tokyo, Japan
11th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1971 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan ArtMuseum, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Gallery 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1970 Art Exhibition of World EXPO 1970, Suita, Osaka, Japan 35th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Human Documents ’70-3, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1969 6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France
9th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Hakone Open-Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
9 Visual Points, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tricks & Vision: Stolen Eyes, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Trend of Japanese Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese Artist Drawing, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1968 OOXPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1st Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan 5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagoya, Japan

1967 Two-Man Show, Tsubaki Kindai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

OOOPLAN, Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Universiad, Tokyo, Japan

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“Zenēi bijutsu no nihon Matsuri no zenya” (The avant garde’s Japan the evening before the festival). Bijutsu Techō (October 2001): 93.

1999 Reed, Robert. “Terror in the Bronze.” Winds (January 1999):30-32.

1997 Chiba, Shigeo. “Tsuitō Yoshida Katsuro mirukoto no hirogari” (Inmemoriam Yoshida Katsuro the expanse of looking). Hanga gējutsu, no. 106 (1997): 98-103. Sawaragi, Noi. “Rensai nihon gendai bijutsu dai 7kai ‘monoha’ towa nanika” (Series Japanese contemporary art part 7 what is ‘monoha’). Bijutsu Techō (January 1997): 163-183.

Suzuki Kenshi. “Ki ga ringo kara ochiru kokuritsu kokusai bijutsukan ‘jūryoku sengo bijutsu no zahyōjin’ ten” (The tree falls from the apple: National Museum of Art, Osaka exhibition “Gravity coordinates of post-war art”). Bijutsu Techō (January 1997): 188-193.
Tani Arata, Mita Haruo, Sugawara Norio, and Takashima Naoyuki. “Nihon-teki hyōgen kūkan to insutarēshon” (Japanese spatial expression and installation). Bijutsu Techō (November 1997): 80-96.

1996 Hyōgyoku, Masahiko. “Gendai bijutsushi no ‘jiken’ ou ‘bijutsu no kōkogaku’ten” (An “incident” in contemporary art). Nihon keizai shinbun, July 10, 1996.
Shiraki, Midori. “Tenhyō Bijutsu no kōkogaku—zenēi bijutsu no nijikensaikenshō” (The archeology of art—re-evaluating two incidents in the avant garde). Nihon Keizai Shinbun (Osaka ed.), July 5, 1996.

Sugawara, Norio. “Torendo in bijutsu aitsugu ‘sengo’ kikaku kenshō womeguru taishō-teki shuhō” (Trends in art: a string of ‘post war’ shows contrast methodology in their examination). Yomiuri shinbun, July 10, 1996.
Tanaka, Sanzōu. “Mono no ninshiki saguru sugata ‘Enokura Koji isaku’ ten to ‘bijutsu no kōkogaku’ ten (bijutsu)” (The state of searching for theunderstanding

of things exhibits ‘posthumous works by Enokura Koji’ and the ‘archeology of art’). Asahi Shinbun, June 27, 1996.

1995 “Biji-shūi 1970nen Bushitsu to chikaku monoha to kongen wo tou sakka tachi” (Gleaning/re-examining good things 1970 Material and perception mono-ha, artists who interrogate origin). Bijutsu Techō (March 1995): 148.
Hyōgyoku Masahiko. “Bijutsu no ashimoto wo tou tamemi, ‘1970nen—bushitsu to chikaku’ ten” (Questioning the foundation of material, exhibition “1970—material and perception”). Nihon keizai shinbun, Novermber 9, 1995.

Jacob, Mike. “The Hole and its Parts: Sculptor pursues ‘Special MentalState’” Daily Yomiuri, January 1995.
Koshimizu, Susumu. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha nokoto Yami no naka e kieteiku mae no yabu no naka e.” Bijutsu Techō (May1995). Lee, Ufan. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha kigen matawa monoha no koto” (Mono-ha talks mono-ha the origin, or about mono-ha). Bijutsu Techō (May 1995): 255-258.

Ōi, Kenji. “Exhibition Review” Bijutsu Techō (August 1995): 173.
Sekine Nobuo. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha no koto seishun to dōgigo no monoha to genzai (ima)” (The youth and synonym of mono- ha and the present (now)) Bijutsu Techō (May 1995): 261-263.
Yoshida, Katsuro. “Tokubetsu kiji shōgen monoha ga kataru monoha no koto chottoshita chigai ga zōfuku sarete” (Mono-ha talks mono-ha: little differences that multiply). Bijutsu Techō (May 1995): 258-260.

1993 Minemura, Toshiaki, and Sumi Akihiko. “Monoha no keisei wo meguttezenpen” (On the formation of mono-ha). Bijutsu Techō (July 1993): 182-205.
Minemura Toshiaki, and Sumi Akihiko. “Monoha no keisei wo meguttekōhen” (On the formation of mono-ha). Bijutsu Techō (August 1993): 170-181.

1990 Sekine, Nobuo. “Rensai essei watashino katachi katachi narazaru katachi” (My form: Form that is not form). Hanga gēijutsu, no 69 (1990): 145.

1989 Haruo, Sanada. “The Japanese Contemporary Exhibition in Belgium.” Mainichi Daily News, Aug 24, 1989.

Yonekura Mamoru. “Suzuki Minoru chōkoku ten to sekine nobuo shinsakuten” (Sculptures by Sumi Akihiko and new works by Sekine Nobuo). Asahi Shinbun, June 9, 1989.

1987 Akita, Yuri. “Exhibition Monoha to posuto monoha no tennkai ‘nihon bijutsu’wo meguru futatsu no ‘chikara’ 1969nen ikō no nihon no bijutsu” (Exhibition: The evolution of Monoha and post-Mono-ha, two forces in Japanese art: Japanese art after 1969). Bijutsu Techō (September 1987): 189.

Fujita, Yaeko. “Kikikaki, garōjin, sakura no obachan (10).” Bijutsu Techō (January 1987): 98-99.
Inui, Yoshiaki, Sakai Tadayasu, Tōno Hōmei, and Yonekura Mamoru. “Zadankai bijutsu kihyō ’87aki “‘mono-ha to posuto mono-ha no tennkai’ ten hoka” (Round table talk, seasonal review, Fall ’87 “the evolution of Mono-ha and post-Mono-ha” et al.). Mizue (Fall 1987): 86-101.

Lee, Ufan. “Tokubetsu kikō mono-ha ni tsuite.” (Special article onMonoha). Mizue (Fall 1987): 102-105.
Lee, Ufan, Takubo Kyōji, Okazaki Kanjirō, Minemura Toshiaki Kanjirō, Minemura Toshiaki, and Chiba Shigeo. “Sairoku shinpojiumu kimihananiwoshitekitaka gekironn 70~80nendai no genndai bijutsu” (Re-recording Symposium: whathave

you been doing? Heated discussion on contemporary art from the 70s and 80s). no. 1, 2, 3, 4, Seibu geijutsukan geppō, myūjiamu repōto, vol. 8, 9, 10,11.
Millet, Catherine. “Tokushū Ponpidū no ‘zenēi geijutsu no nihon 1910-1970’ten, watashitachi no yumemita radikalizumu kikan fukanō na jiten to shite” (“Japon des avant-gardes, 1910-1970” at the Pompidou, the radicalism we dreamed of as the point of no return). Bijutsu Techō, (April 1987): 144-151.

Minemura, Toshiaki. “Wadai Pari, ponpidū centā ‘zenēi geijutsu no nihon1910- 1970’ ten no shinsō geijutsu no kihon wo machigaetewa imasenka” (The truth behind “Japon des avant-gardes, 1910-1970” at the Pompidou Center, Paris. Could you be misunderstanding the basis of art?) Art, no. 119 (1987): 70-72. Shiraga, Kazuo and Chiba Shigeo. “Shiraga Kazuo ga kataru” (Shiraga Kazuo speaks). Geijutsu hyōron (August 1987): 5-20.

1978 “Nobuo Sekine.” Louisiana Revy, 19, no. 1 (August 1978): 18-23.(translated sections of the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf catalog).

1975 Yasui, Shūzō. “Sekine Nobuo shōron. Kono <isō> no shitsuyō natankyūsha” (Short essay on Sekine Nobuo. A tenacious investigator of this “phase”). Hanga geijutsu (Print arts), no. 11 (1975): 142-48.

1973 Yasui, Shūzō. “Sekine Nobuo e no tegami” (A letter to Sekine Nobuo). Kindai kenchiku, June 1973.

Minemura, Toshiaki. “Geijutsu jānaru: Sekine Nobuo koten” (Art journal:Sekine Nobuo solo exhibition). Obararyū sōka, June 1973.

1972 Haryu, Ichiro. “Dialogue number 31: Sekine, Nobuo, Interviewer Haryu, Ichiro.” Mizue 9-10, no. 812 (1972): 84-101.

1971 Ufan, Lee. “Chokusetsu genshō no chihei ni (Sekine Nobuo ron)” (From the horizon of a direct phenomenon [On Sekine Nobuo]). Pts. 1 and 2. SD, no. 74 (December 1970); no. 75 (January 1971).

1970 Ōkubo, Takaki. “Sekine Nobuo no kūsō” (Sekine Nobuo’s phase ofnothingness). Kai, March 1970.

1969 Ōkubo, Takaki. “Sonzai to mu o koete-Sekine Nobuo ron” (Beyond beingand nothingness – On Sekine Nobuo). Sansai, June 1969, 51-53.

1968 Yūsuke, Nakahara. “<Tsuchi no chōkoku> no episode” (The episode of the“dirt sculpture”). Geijutsu shinchō, December 1968, 43.

Public Collections

Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
Kanai Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
Kawagoe City Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland

Prefectural Museum, Gunma, Japan
Prefectural Museum, Omiya, Saitama, Japan Prefectural Museum, Tochigi, Japan
Riijksmuseum Kroller, Otterlo, Holland
Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Sonji Henie-Nils Onstad Culture Center, Oslo, Norway Takamatsu Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan Yokohama Business Park, Yokohama, Japan

Awards

1969 Concour Prize, 1st International Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition,Hakone, Japan

Prize Group Work, 6th Paris Biennale, Paris, France

1968 Concour Prize, 8th Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Asahi Newspaper Prize, Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Suma Palace Park, Kobe, Japan
First Prize, 5th Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan

1967 Commendatory Prize, 11th Shell Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

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