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NEEDLES – Geometrical Forms Installation

Toshimasa KIKUCHI (1979 – ) Japan

2020

Length: 225 cm – Width: 23 cm – Depth: 16 cm

Hinoki wood (Japanese Cypres), urushi lacquer, gold and silver leaves

Toshimasa Kikuchi’s « Neddles » series is inspired by the Kuen surface, a mathematical equation studied by the German mathematician Theodor Kuen in 1884. The Kuen surface is a surface with negative curvature: a form emptied of all organic life, a vertex abstract sculpture freed from the traditional preoccupations of mass and movement.

Publication(s)

A book will be published in July 2021 for the Carte Blanche à Toshimasa Kikuchi which will take place at the National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet, Paris, from July 1 to September 27, 2021.

Exhibition(s)

“Objects Confronting Each Other – Harmony and Figuration of Forms” (Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, 2016)
“Lustrous Surfaces” (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2017)
“Art Meet05” (Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan, 2018)
“Negative Space – Trajectories of Sculpture” (ZKM / Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, 2019).