Katsuhito Nishikawa Art

Katsuito Nishikawa Untitled (Geometric Construction Drawing) Edition: Unique Size: 19.9 × 15.0 on 24.4 × 24.4 inches COA provided Born: 1949; Tokyo, Japan Nationality: Japanese Art Movement: Minimalism Genre: installation, sculpture Field: painting, sculpture, design, drawing, installation Katsuhito Nishikawa , born in Tokyo in 1949 is a Japanese visual artist . He studied at Keio University (Japan), Tokyo University (Tokyo), then at the Munich School of Fine Arts (Germany) and at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (Germany). ). He taught for many years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany) and the School of Art and Design in Reims (France). He currently lives in Neuss (Germany). After having come to settle partially in Europe in the early 1980s , he is exposed in Japan, the United States, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Great Britain and France where he signs twenty or so public commissions in the urban space. The work operates in cycles of white sculptures inspired by nature as architectural achievements, playing on the concept of different scales and varied materials. Let's mention "Innercouryard of Sintra" (1992), "Aqua" (2000), or the emblematic cycle of Physalis , begun in 1998. The Color as shadow cycle, made up of colored plexiglas screens, was shown in Europe and Asia . In 1999, he exhibited a work entitled Physalis Hanging on the Champs-Elysees as part of the international exhibition The Fields of Sculpture . This work, produced by the Caisse des Depots et Consignations was then offered to the Musée des Beaux- Douai Arts (Northern France). It is now installed permanently on the banks of the Scarpe, Douai. In particular, he inaugurated December 15 , 2006 Physalis Partitura , historic public commission in the courtyard of the University Hospital of Lille , with grants from the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the ERDF. The 5,500 m 2 work consists of the creation of a pacifying esplanade planted with magnolias and 24 sculpture...