Toshikatsu Endo1950-

Born in a family of traditional carpentry for shrines and temples in Takayama, he was once apprentice of a local sculptor of Buddhist sculpture, but soon resigned to shift for broader possibilities of pure plastic representation of the arts. In the seventies, he began creating monumental sculptures using basic elements of nature such as soil, water, fire and winds following the materialistic and illusionistic image of these elements to invite the viewers to the origin of the lives. He has tried to remove superfluous or decorative factors to endow the given form such concept as circle or void. While keeping the overwhelming materiality of burnt wood, his recent interest seems to shift toward the gestural, corporeal and narrative consciousness behind the materials, questioning the relationship between grand nature and men.

Biography

1950 Born in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture
1972 Graduated from Nagoya College of Creative Art

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Solo Exhibitions

2010 “Void 2010 AKIYAMA” Akiyama Gallery, Tokyo
“Toshikatsu Endo Trieb⇔Void” Hillside Forum, Tokyo
2009 “Sacrifice and Void” Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori
2006 “Trieb-Rain Room” Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama
2005 “Voidness” SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
1991 “TOSHIKATSU ENDO” Touko Musuem of Contemporary Art
“Earth; Air; fire; Water? The Sculpture of Toshikatsu Endo” I.C.A. London, U.K
1989 “Toshikatsu Endo Exhibition” The Nordic Arts Center, Helsinki
1975 “Code of Water” Lunami Gallery, Tokyo

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Group Exhibitions

2015 "Four Artists: Materials and Hands" Kiyotsukyo Warehouse Museum, Niigata
2011 “Personal Structures” Palazzo Bembo, Venice
2009 “1st
Tokorozawa Biennial of Contemporary Art SIDING RAIL ROAD” Tokorozawa, Saitama
2003 “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennail 2003” Tsumari, Niigata
2001 “Yokohama Triennnale 2001 Mega-Wave” Pacifico Yokohama, Kanagawa
2000 “Gwangju Biennnale Man＋Space” Gwangju City Museum
“Three Spirits of Wood” Kanaz Forest of Creation, Ishikawa
1996 “Farewell Exhibition to Dojunkai Appartment in Daikanyama:
Reincarnation and Memory” Daikanyama, Tokyo
1994 “22nd Sao Paulo Biennale” Sao Paulo Biennale Pavillion
1991 “STRUCTURE and REMEMBRANCE-TOYA, ENDO, KENMOCHI” Tokyo Metropolitan Musuem
1990 “A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptures” Hara Musuem of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles,
“44 la Biennale di Venezia” Giardini di Castello, Venice
1989 “”20 Ste Biennnale Middelheim-Japan” Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwkunst Middelheim, Antwerpen
1988 “La Biennale di Venezia: Aperto ‘88” Corderie dell’ Arsenale, Venice
1987 “Documenta 8” Museum Friedericianum, Kassel
“Art in Japan since 1969: Mono-ha and Post Mono-ha” Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1986 “The 6th Triennale India” Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi
1984 “Metaphor and/or Symbol: A perspective of Contemporary Art” National
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
1978 “’78 Tokorozawa Open-Air Exhibition” Tokorazawa Aviation Memorial Park, Saitama

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Collection / Public Art

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art
Iwaki City Museum
MOCA, Los Angeles

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