Kan yasuda biography of martin

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Classically trained in both Japan and Italy, Kan Yasuda (B.

Kan yasuda biography of martin

1945) is one of the pre-eminent contemporary Japanese sculptors. His minimalist, smoothly undulating works in marble and bronze are critically acclaimed in his native Japan and throughout Europe.
Yasuda, who has maintained a studio in Pietrasanta, Italy, for over 40 years, explores a way of being through nature, and talks of being guided by the voices of 'souls buried in the earth'.

He says he works 'by imagining what the stones might be saying.'
The pieces on show in Kan Yasuda | Touching Time, a private selling exhibition that runs until 26 March at Christie's New York, are both monumental and domestic in scale, and, says Jonathan Rendell, Christie's Deputy Chairman and Senior Advisor, '[They] benefit from careful contemplation and contract with the machine age architecture of New York City against which they exert a powerful spiritual force.'

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