Kan Masuda
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| Kan Masuda | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 増田感 |
| Born | 1950 Nara Prefecture, Japan |
| 🏡 Residence | Barcelona and Japan |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Japanese |
| 🏫 Education | University of Osaka (1972) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Sculptor |
| Notable work | The Way of Sound (1998) |
| Style | Sound sculpture |
| Movement | Contemporary art |
| 🏅 Awards | Culture Medal of Wakayama Prefecture (2003) |
| 🌐 Website | http://kanmasuda.com |
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Kan Masuda (増田感, born 1950 in Nara Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese sculptor specializing in sound scupture, often using elements from nature such as wood or tree roots. He is best known in Japan, but his work of art has also received recognition in Spain and internationally. Since the early 1970s, Masuda has been working on numerous solo projects like sound acoustic sculpture installations, Concert exhibitions, monuments and wood sculptures.[1]
Masuda moved from Japan to Spain in 1976, and he currently lives in Barcelona where he lives since 1980. He also goes back to Japan frequently.
Early life[edit]
Kan Masuda was born on March, 1950, in the Nara Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Osaka University in Fine Arts in 1972. Masuda soon began his work as a sculpture, focusing solely in sound sculpture in 1974.
Career and works[edit]
In 1981, Masuda participated in an exhibition of Contemporary sculpture in Seu d'Urgell. Was then when Masuda started investigating about the bell towers of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona and build some prototypes of tubular bells for the bell towers of the Sagrada Familia.[2] Masuda himself considered Gaudí one of his main influences. He also collaborated at the "Catedra Gaudi", of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), in Barcelona. In 1982, he made a One-man exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró.[3]
In 1984, he has also participated in the Memorial Exhibion on Gaudí's Year, carried out by The Reial Catedra Gaudí in Barcelona.[4] And in March 1989, he made another exhibition of his work in Antiga Casa de Caritat of Barcelona.[5]
In 1999, Masuda planned the projects Kumanokodo and The Way of St. James. That same year, he displays the Rising Sun Bell, one of his major works, and it was placed temporally at Expo Main Pavilion at the Modern Art Museum of Wakayama, Japan.
In 2009, Masuda began an eco-sound sculpture project named Mensaje del Bosque: Voz de Raíz (Message from the Forest: Root's voice) based in Serra de Collserola and in Vallvidrera, el Tibidabo i les Planes, Barcelona area, made after the forest disaster that took place in Collserola that same year.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Escultores Serie misterios japoneses". Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ↑ ""La Mirada"". Retrieved 13 June 2022.
- ↑ "Kan Masuda 1982's exposition". Retrieved 30 May 2022.
- ↑ Sama, Antonio (2014). "El manifiesto del girasol: Una obra maestra de Gaudí: «El Capricho» de Comillas". Barcelona: Ediciones Universidad Catalana. p. 52. ISBN 978-84-8102-722-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Casa de la Caritat, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de la (1989). Kan Masuda, escutures sonores: de l'1 al 31 de marc de 1989 a l'edifici de les dones de l'antiga Casa de la Caritat, Barcelona. Barcelona: Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona. p. 302. Search this book on
- ↑ "Voz de Raíz" (PDF). Retrieved 13 June 2022.
External links[edit]
- Kan Masuda's Official Website [1]
- INAMI Nanto City 2019 [2]
- Paisatge de so 1982's Masuda exhibition [3]
- Contemporary Japanese Artists in Spain: An Approximation [4]
- Kan Masuda: Mensaje del Bosque [5]
- University of Zaragoza - Japan And The Individual: A Multidisciplinary Comparative Analysis (2015) [6]
- UNED - A General Introduction to Sound Art [7]
- 2011's presentation of Voz de Raíz [8]
- "Ullar al viento, escultura sonora" [9]
- Kan Masuda "Voz de Raíz" Exposition [10]
- "Gaudí vist des de la retina japonesa: el per qué d'una fascinació" by Abelló Joanpere, Joan [11]
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