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GALLERIES
KAN YASUDA, Ishinki, 2011. Statuario white marble, 40 x 71 x 36 cm. Photo by Shigeo Muto. © Kan Yasuda, courtesy ShugoArts.
MASATO KOBAYASHI, “Family of this Planet,” installation view, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2021. Photo by Shigeo Muto. © Masato Kobayashi, courtesy ShugoArts.
KAN YASUDA
Born and raised in Hokkaido, Kan Yasuda moved to Italy in 1970 at the age of 25. Today he lives and works in Pietrasanta, a small town in northern Tuscany famous for its marble production. Using marble and bronze, Yasuda creates large-scale sculptures that are exhibited and installed in public spaces around the world and express a powerful sense of mass while appearing free from the pull of gravity. His solo exhibition “Isole del Silenzio” (Islands of silence), on view at Fondation Wilmotte and curated by Jean-Michel Wilmotte, is an official collateral event of this year’s 61st Venice Biennale, reflecting his international acclaim. Yasuda’s first exhibition with ShugoArts in Tokyo will center on three large-scale bronze sculptures.
SHUGOARTS
Shugo Satani worked at his father Kazuhiko’s Satani Gallery before starting ShugoArts in 2000. The gallery moved to Roppongi in 2016 and opened a viewing space in Tennozu Isle in 2021. ShugoArts aims to create new art historical values through its exhibition program, prioritizing above all the free expression of artists. The gallery collaborates with such artists as Masaya Chiba, Yukio Fujimoto, Masato Kobayashi, Lee Kit, Naofumi Maruyama, Rina Matsudaira, Anju Michele, Ritsue Mishima, Yasumasa Morimura, Yuji Ono, Clara Spilliaert, Yoriko Takabatake, Shigeo Toya, Atsushi Yamamoto, and Tomoko Yoneda.