Susumu shingu biography
- Born July 13, Osaka, Japan.
- Biography of Susumu Shingu.
- Susumu Shingū (新宮 晋, Shingū Susumu) (born 13 July 1937) is a kinetic sculptor from Japan.
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Susumu Shingu Japan, b. 1937
Susumu Shingu (1937) creates sculptures that move by the power of wind. Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to make movement and sound, and he began using more sophisticated materials for outdoor works. His work walks the fine line between complementing nature and existing as a natural integration. The pieces, though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt nature's rhythms in their movement.
Comissions and Public Collections:
1970 Path of the Wind (Senrikita Park, Osaka, Japan)
1975 Message from across the Ocean (JR Kobe Station Plaza, Japan)
1977 Zasso Forest School (Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto)
1978 Neverending Dialog (Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan)
1979 Distant Rhythm (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan)
1981 Time Traveler (Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan)
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Biography of Susumu Shingu
1937
Born in Osaka, Japan.
1960
Graduated from Tokyo University of Arts with a major in oil painting under Ryohei Koiso.
Awarded scholarship by Italian government to study in Rome.
1960-62
Studied oil painting under Franco Gentilini at Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma.
1966
First showing of three-dimensional sculptures at Galleria Blu, Milan. Returned to Japan.
1967
Solo show, “Wind Structures,” Shoho Gallery, Osaka and Hibiya Park, Tokyo.
Ube Open-Air Art Museum prize at 2nd Contemporary Japanese SculptureShow.
1968
One of seven sculptors chosen to exhibit works at EXPO'70 Osaka.
1971-72
Visiting Artist, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1973
Solo outdoor show, “Wind and Water Sculptures,” PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y.
1979
4th Isoya Yoshida Prize.
Prizes from National Museum of Art, Osaka, and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art at 8th Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Show.
Solo show at Asahi Gallery, Kyoto.
1980
8th Outdoor Sculpture
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