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is a contemporary Japanese sculptor. He was born in 1946 in Ishikawa, Japan. From a family that owns a cedar forest and lumber mill. Originally trained as a painter, Kadonaga soon realized that “others painted better”.〔The New Yorker, 1987〕 In his father’s sawmill he rediscovered the natural beauty of wood. His work can be related to two recent art movements in Japan, though he was not directly involved with either. The Gutai, or “concrete” movement of the 1950s and, later, the Mono-ha or “object” group which operates in a way similar to Western “process artists”.〔Artspace 1989〕 == Wood == Kadonaga's earliest works that gained him international attention were made with a veneer slicer to cut cedar logs with the bark removed into long strips the thickness of paper. The strips were then glued back together in the form of the original log. As well as slicing logs, Kadonaga has also carved geometric shapes, and split logs to reveal the grain. Wood is Kadonaga’s most extensively used material, which he uses to “explore different ways of looking at a tree, not to take a tree for granted” (〔Artspace, 1989〕) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kazuo Kadonaga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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