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Toshimasa Kikuchi - Mathematical Objects (Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
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Toshimasa Kikuchi - Mathematical Objects (Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
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The work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979)
is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of
Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of
classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood -
geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is
of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his
preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition
(Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The
installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet
in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in
lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the
celebrated photographs that Man Ray took of them. These abstract
forms, hanging from the ceiling like mobiles or laid on the floor
like devotional objects, take shape through a virtuosity and
craftsmanship seldom found in contemporary art. The book is
lavishly illustrated by the Japanese photographer Tadayuki
Minamoto, who was able to capture the magnificence of the
mathematical abstraction of the works of Kikuchi; by photographs
and paintings by Man Ray; and with fascinating mathematical objects
from the Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, photographed by the French
photographer Bertrand Michau. It is essential reading for lovers of
surrealism and of the early years of twentieth-century abstraction
as well as for all who are intrigued by the close relationship
between art and mathematics.
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