ARTIST INFO

Keiji UEMATSU

Keiji UEMATSU

Keiji Uematsu (1969-) is an artist based in Osaka, Japan and in Düsseldorf, Germany. Since his first solo show in Kyoto, he has been active in many parts of the world. Elected as a representative artist for Venice Biennale in 1988. From the conceptional works of the 70s to the recently increased outdoor sculpture in and outside Japan, this artist continuously use and arrange the materials like wood, stone, fabric, metal to catabolize the space, and tries to make the viewers to realize the universal power that exists behind the human perception such as gravity and magnetic field.

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Works

  • Title
    Situaion-Floating Space
    Year
    2010
    Medium
    Brass, Wirerope
  • Title
    tower of spiral
    Size
    50×80×14cm
    Year
    2010
    Medium
    copper, steel
  • Title
    Touch of spiral-Floating
    Size
    left: 229×40.5cm center: 230×38.5cm right: 225×35cm
    Year
    2009
    Medium
    Brass, Copper
  • Title
    Touch of spiral-Floating
    Size
    63 x 32cm
    Year
    2009
    Medium
    Brass, Copper
  • Title
    Situaion-Floating Space Drawing
    Medium
    drawing on paper
  • Title
    Situaion-Floating Space
    Year
    2010
    Medium
    Brass, Wirerope
  • Title
    tower of spiral
    Size
    50×80×14cm
    Year
    2010
    Medium
    copper, steel
  • Title
    Touch of spiral-Floating
    Size
    left: 229×40.5cm center: 230×38.5cm right: 225×35cm
    Year
    2009
    Medium
    Brass, Copper
  • Title
    Touch of spiral-Floating
    Size
    63 x 32cm
    Year
    2009
    Medium
    Brass, Copper
  • Title
    Situaion-Floating Space Drawing
    Medium
    drawing on paper

CV

1947
Born in Kobe, Japan
1969
Graduated from Kobe University,

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1977
"Plastik und Foto" Stadtisches Museum Wiesbaden Ausschnitte 1, Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
1980
Installation "Axis-Latitude-Longitude" P.S.1, New York
1981
"Installation and Photo" Osaka Prefectural Contemporary Art Center
1984
"Structures-Cloth/branch" Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam
1988
Participated in XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte la Biennale di Venezia, Giardini di Castello, Venezia
1994
Participated in 3rd Kitakyushu Biennale, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art
1997
"Behind the Perception" Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City
2003
"Eyes under physical consideration, photographs, video and films" Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
2003
"Inclination of the Earth's Axis" Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori
2005
"Axis – Latitude – Longitude" Kunstlerverein Marlkasen, Dusseldorf
2006
"The Garden of Time" Otani Memorial Art Museum , Nishinomiya City

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000
Participated in Echigotsumari Art Triennial 2000, Echigotsumari, Niigata
2009
Participated in Kobe Biennale 2009