In addition to creating sculptures and two-dimensional works made of plaster and cloth, Yasui Takanosuke has been creating murals at the Seewall Museum Ogatsu (*) in Ogatsucho, Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. In this exhibition, after spending 2023 in India and Ogatsucho, Yasui will display sculptures and paintings created based on his stays there.
* The Seewall Museum Ogatsu is an art project that creates new landscapes by painting murals every year on the huge seawall, up to 10 meters high and 3.5 kilometers long, that was built to surround the coast of Ogatsucho after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Artist and Old fisherman
2023
Plaster, cotton, acrylic on wooden panel
113.5 x 146.5 cm
SELF PORTLAIT
2023
Plaster, cotton, acrylic
60 x 40 x 30 cm
Two men on top of a hill
2023
Plaster, cotton, acrylic, wooden frame
55 x 46.3 x 10.6 cm
Yasui Takanosuke
Graduated from the Department of Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019.
He delves deeply into sculpture from the classics to modern styles, such as Michelangelo and Rodin, while also being exposed to trends in contemporary art, mainly from Europe and America. While he creates two and three-dimensional works using plaster and cloth as “weak sculptures,” he has also recently been working on the Seawall Museum Ogatsu project, painting murals on the huge seawall built after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
I ask myself, “What is the difference between an old man from a fishing village, and me as an artist?”
Yasui Takanosuke