…just beautiful and yet sensational…
26 March - 7 April
Opening Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11am-7pm Closed on Sundays & National holidays （last day -5pm）
The sculptor, Kobachi cuts out the figure from one camphor tree, giving it a life based on the original shape of the tree.
The new born sculpture bears rather acrobatic balance and can be called as ‘curious appearance’ at the first glance.
However, he polishes the surface by the agate stick, until it looks like marble. The hard and smooth surface, the delicate details and the unique expression of the face….
The finish of the sculptures are just beautiful and yet sensational.
His works are definitely not so called ‘pretty figures’, but are successful in the real contemporary expression of the mature eroticism.
Artists page, Tadafumi KOBACHI →
| Biography of Tadafumi KOBACHI | |
| 1961 | Born in Nagasaki |
| 1985 | graduated from Department of Sculpture, Tama Art University |
| 1987 | Completed the Master Course in Sculpture at Tama Art University |
| 1989-93 | Stayed in Firenze, Italy |
| [Solo Exhibitions] | |
| 2009 | Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo |
| 2008 | Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo |
| 2006 | Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo |
| 2003 | Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo |
| 2002 | Gallery Center Point, Tokyo |
| 1995 | Mominoki Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1987 | Gallery ITEZA, Kyoto |
| 1986 | Ono Gallery, Tokyo |
| [grouop Exhibitions] | |
| 2011 | “Art Taipei 2011”, Taiwan |
| 2009 | “Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2009”, Tobi Art Forum (Tokyo Bijyutsu Club), Tokyo “What’s the wood carving? ”, Shinjuku Takashimaya Art gallery, Tokyo |
| 1997 | “Exhibition by Kaori WATANABE & Tadafumi KOBACHI” galleria grafica bis, Tokyo |
| 1995 | “Ripple of Water in Nagasaki ‘95” Art Festival of The 50th Anniversary Being Bombed Memory, Nagasaki |
| 1991 | Montecatini Terme, Italy |
| 1987 | “Visual Flight”, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo “Metamorphotion”, Kanagawa Arts Foundation, Yokohama |
| 1986 | “Bansyo-no -Henyo” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama “Expression on site”, Tama Art University Kaminoge-campus, Tokyo |
| 1985 | Parergon II, Tokyo ( ‘86) “UPSTAIRS”, ART SPACE KEIHO ( ‘86 Space21), Tokyo |
| [Monuments] | |
| 1997 | Honoring Monument for the disaster rescue team at Mt. Unzen-Fugen |
| 1995 | Prayer Tower of the recovery from the disaster at Mt. Unzen-Fugen |