Material Stone and steel on wooden plinth
Dimensions 70 x 53 x 27 cm
Place of Creation Probably Denmark
Price €90,000
Status Vetted

About the Work

Born in 1942 in Saitama, Japan, Sekine Nobuo has become a seminal figure in the Mono-ha movement—a pivotal force in shaping postwar Japanese modern art. Mono-Ha, the “school of things”, sought not to transform matter but to reveal its presence, its internal tensions, and its relations to space.


The preparatory drawings Sekine produced throughout the 1970s, discreet and meticulous, reveal the conceptual rigor underpinning this approach. Diagrams, measurements, and geometric projections lay out the internal logic of his works: a topological mode of thinking in which sculpture is defined as a field of relations between gravity, equilibrium, tension, and reflection.

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Provenance

Galerie Jerome, Copenhaguen;
Private Collection, Denmark;
Private Collection, France;
Acquired from the above.

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