- Tama Art University
Nobuo Sekine’s Phase—Mother Earth, made for the 1968 Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition in Kobe, is frequently identified as a catalytic work for Mono-ha. By excavating a cylindrical volume of earth and placing the displaced soil beside the hole, he made transformation, material and site inseparable.
Sculpture; installation
Artist Films
Nobuo Sekine: Sensibility of a Rock
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Major Works
- 1968Phase—Mother Earth
- 1969Phase of Nothingness—Water
- 1968Phase—Sponge
- 1969Phase of Nothingness
- 2012Phase—Mother Earth reconstruction
- 1970Phase of Nothingness—Black
- 1970Phase of Nothingness—Cloth and Stone
- 1970Phase—Mirror
- 1969Phase of Nothingness—Stone
- 1968–70Phase works
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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