ARTISTS

Kikuma Mochizuki

Kikuma Mochizuki has been active at the forefront of metal sculpture in Japan. He graduated from the graduate school of Tokyo National University of Arts in 1971, and began his career with the "Destruction Series," focusing on the fact that a single act of creation is an accumulation of destructive acts such as beating, stretching, cutting, and making a hole. Since then, he has continued to develop a diverse series of works. While winning numerous art awards, he has created public art in more than 100 locations in Japan.
Beginning adding simple power to simple materials, and he sometimes assembles what he has stripped away, sometimes incorporates different materials, and evolves his techniques and methods of expression in a complex manner. The artist's activities over the past 50 years themselves illustrate that destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin.

BIOGRAPHY

Biography

1945 Born in Fukuoka Prefecture.
1969 B.F.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Faculty of Fine Arts.
1971 M.F.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Faculty of Fine Arts.
Salon de Printemps Award for graduation project.
1972 Completed Research Course, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Faculty of Fine Arts.

Solo Exhibitions

1970 Fukuoka Forum Gallery, Fukuoka.
1973 Fukuoka Prefectural Culture Center, Fukuoka.
1975 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo (’77).
1980 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo (’82, ’84, ‘88).
1985 Ten Gallery, Fukuoka.
1992 Skydoor Art Place Aoyama, Tokyo (’95, ’98, ’99, 2001).
2002 F.T. Skala Building, Fukuoka.
2003 Gallery SEIHO, Tokyo (’04, ’10, ‘16).
2005 F.T. Skala Building, Fukuoka.
2008 Yamane Art Lab., Fukuoka.
2012 Mizoe Art Gallery, Fukuoka (’16, ’20, ‘23).
2014 Mizoe Art Gallery, Tokyo (’20, ’23).