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Artist
Yoshishige Saito
b. 1904, Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan · Based in Tokyo, Japan
- Self-taught Pioneer of Japanese Constructivism and Mono-ha
- Sculpture
- Drilled Wood Relief
- Constructivism
Yoshishige Saito was a revered grandfather of Japanese avant-garde art and influential mentor to the Mono-ha movement. Renowned for black plywood relief panels carved with electric drills and raw geometric timber installations, his work dismantled Western pictorial space.
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