| Yutaka Sone | |
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| Born | 1965 Shizuoka, Japan |
| Field | Contemporary art |
Yutaka Sone (born 1965 in Shizuoka, Japan) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He is represented by David Zwirner, New York.
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Sone studied architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts (東京芸術大学 Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku). His great love and fascination for nature, combined with a totally open approach to life and art galvanizes a highly unconventional art. Working in various media, Sone makes installations, performance art, and films. He also paints and, like a traditional sculptor, carves hard marble and crystal. Part of Sone’s sculptural work comprises cities and sceneries carved into large blocks of marble and oversized snowflakes carved out of single pieces of natural crystal. Sone’s work does not exploit the heritage of one particular culture, drawing rather on the artist’s extensive travels and striving to create a singular poetic vocabulary connected to culture at large.
Sone's work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo from December 2010 to February 2010 and at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from January 2011 to March 2011. His 25-foot tall sculpture, titled Baby Banana Tree, was installed as a public artwork at the Boone Sculpture Garden, Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, in 2009. [1] Other recent solo exhibitions include Parasol unit for contemporary art, London (2007), David Zwirner, New York (1999, 2004, 2006, and 2007), Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2006), Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado (2006), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois (2006),[2] Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2003), and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan (2002).
His work has been shown internationally including the Venice Biennial (2003) where he had a solo exhibit in the Japanese pavilion, and numerous important group exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois (2005), and the Whitney Biennial (2004).