The Japanese word Mono-ha means ‘school of things’. Mono-ha is the name given to a group of artists who went to the Tokyo University of Art at the end of the 1960s. Similarly to the Arte Povera movement in Italy, which emerged a few years earlier, the Mono-ha artists make sculptures and installations using materials such as stone, sand, rope, wood, cotton, glass and metal. Appreciating a Mono-ha work requires patience and reflection, in perfect Japanese style. Looking at it requires us to reflect on the relationship between art and nature, material and space; it means thinking about transformation and the changeability of things – in a word, thinking about life.
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The Japanese word Mono-ha means ‘school of things’. Mono-ha is the name given to a group of artists who went to the Tokyo University of Art at the end of the 1960s. Similarly to the Arte Povera movement in Italy, which emerged a few years earlier, the Mono-ha artists make sculptures and installations using materials such as stone, sand, rope, wood, cotton, glass and metal. Appreciating a... continue...
