Nobuo Sekine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nobuo Sekine

Japanese artist

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1942

Place of Birth: Saitama, Kantō region, Japan

Date of Death: 13-May-2019

Profession: sculptor, land artist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Nobuo Sekine (?? ??, Sekine Nobuo, September 19, 1942 – May 13, 2019) was a Japanese sculptor who resided in both Tokyo, Japan, and Los Angeles, California. He was one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states.
Works which come under the Mono-ha umbrella focus as much on the interdependency of the aforementioned elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.