Nobuo SEKINE![]() |
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Nobuo Sekine was born 1942 in Saitama Prefecture. He studied under Saito Yoshishige at the Department of Oil Painting at Tama Art University, graduating in 1968. Past graduation, he participated in the 8th Exhibition of Contemporary Art, the Open Air Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition at Suma Rikyu Park (Kobe), and the 5th Nagaoka Exhibition of Contemporary Art, with some of his works giving rise to controversy. Sekine counts as one of the central members of the Mono-ha movement. He exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1970, and in 1973 founded Environmental Art Studio. In 1978, he exhibited at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), and a variety of other venues in Europe. |
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Phase: Mother Earth,
Sekine’s most well-known
work, simply is a
cylindrical hole he dug out
in Suma Park, with the soil
from the hole formed into a
cylinder and placed next to
it. During its lifetime of
merely a couple of weeks,
this work made a lasting
impression on the minds of
the visitors. If he would
have continued that work
forever, at some point the
earth would have been wholly
dug up, and there would have
been a new earth next to the
space where the old one used
to be… Phase: Mother
Earth, maybe
conceived as a thought
experiment under the impact
of topology, is a work of
magnificent scale that
established Sekine’s
reputation in the art world. |
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![]() “Phase - Mother Earth 1” 1986 Silkscreen (Printed by OKABE Tokuzo) Image size: 87.2×186.5cm Sheet size: 100.6×199.4cm Ed.25 Signed |
![]() "Phase: Mother Earth" 1986 Silkscreen (Printed by Tokuzo OKABE) 59.5X79 cm Ed.75 Signed |
![]() Poster “Phase - Mother Earth” 1970 Offset Sheet size: 73.0×51.0cm Signed |
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![]() Phase Conception "Torus of △" (G10-155) 1989 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 53.0×45.0cm (F10) Signed |
![]() Phase Conception “Symbol amid Waves”(G15-86) 1988 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 66.0×53.0cm (F15) Signed |
![]() Phase Conception "River Place" (B15-2) 1987 Phase Conception (Mixed media, graphite) 65.5×54.0cm (F15) Signed |
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![]() Phase Conception "Magnetic Field" (G8-68) 1988 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 46.0×38.0cm (F8) Signed |
![]() Phase Conception "A Window of Chaos" (B3-44) 1989 Phase Conception (Mixed media, graphite) 27.0×21.5cm (F3) Signed |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Mebias" 1975 Black granite W66.0xH66.0xD16.0cm |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Two Mountains" 1974 Black granite W70.0xH35.0x33.0cm Signed and dated underneath |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Dotaku" 1972 Bronze W28.0xH25.0xD10.0cm Signed and dated |
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![]() "The Broken Pyramid" 1980 Black granite W61.5xH33.0xxD46.0cm Signed |
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![]() "Dirt Arch and Dirt Tunnel Project" 1979 Watercolor, pencil, collage 47.0x38.0cm Signed |
![]() "Placing a Natural Stone on a Standing Tree Project" 1979 Watercolor, pencil, collage 47.0x38.0cm Signed |
![]() "Inlay" (04) 1980 Metal, paper 76.0x56.0cm Signed |
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![]() "Pyramid Project" 1979 Watercolor, pencil, collage 47.0x38.0cm Signed |
![]() "Project" 1979 Watercolor, pencil, collage 47.0x38.0cm Signed |
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![]() "Inlay" (01) 1980 Metal, paper 76.0x56.0cm Signed |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Skin 3" 2014 Acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, plywood 101.6x81.3cm Signed |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Skin 4" 2015 Acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, plywood 101.6x81.3cm Signed |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Skin 6" 2014 Acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, plywood 127x101.6cm Signed |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Skin 10" 2015 Acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, plywood 127x101.6cm Signed |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Skin 11" 2015 Acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, plywood 127x101.6cm Signed |
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![]() "A Point of the Earth" 1982 Stainless steel relief 35.0×31.5×2.0cm Ed. 30 Signed |
![]() "Top of the Pyramid" 1982 Sculpture, stainless steel H20.0×15.0×30.0cm Ed. 30 Signed |
![]() "Inlay of a landscape" 1982 Iron, stainless steel 33.5×10×39.3cm Signed |
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![]() "Falling Apple" 1975 Silkscreen 63.0x45.0cm Ed.75 Signed |
![]() "Suspend a Rock" 1975 Silkscreen 63.0x45.0cm Ed.75 Signed |
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![]() "Shadow of Abstraction" 1975 Silkscreen 63.0x45.0cm Ed.75 Signed |
![]() "Self Portrait" 1975 Silkscreen 63.0x45.0cm Ed.75 Signed |
![]() "Poke a Cloud" 1975 Silkscreen 63.0x45.0cm Ed.75 Signed |
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![]() "Touch Red" 1976 Lithograph 63.0x90.0cm Ed.12 Signed |
![]() "Touch Black" 1976 Lithograph 63.0x90.0cm Ed.12 Signed |
![]() "Touch Blue" 1976 Lithograph 63.0x90.0cm Ed.12 Signed |
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![]() "Project - Kremlin" 1977 |
![]() "Project- Rome" 1977 Copperplate print 66.0x50.0cm Ed.100 *From the exhibition "Modernity and Voice" Signed |
![]() "Project - Tree" 1977 Copperplate print 66.0x50.0cm Ed.100 *From the exhibition "Modernity and Voice" Signed |
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![]() "Mouth Project" 1982 Silkscreen 65.5x50.5cm Ed.50 Signed |
![]() "Dialogue with the Earth" 1982 Lithograph 63.5x45.0cm Ed.45 Signed |
![]() "Calling Out for the Moon" 1975 Silkscreen 53.0×35.0cm Ed. 75 Signed |
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![]() "Purple Palette Project" 1982 Copperplate print 60.0×45.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
"Evening Rainbow Project" 1982 Copperplate print 60.0×45.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
![]() "Pipe Dream - Torii" 1975 Silkscreen 45.0×35.0cm Ed. 75 Signed |
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![]() "Pipe Dream - Green Balloon" 1975 Silkscreen, hand coloring 42.0×35.0cm Ed. 100 Signed |
![]() "Pipe Dream - Red Balloon" 1975 Silkscreen, hand coloring 42.0×35.0cm Ed. 100 Signed |
![]() "Triangle Window Project" 1982 Copperplate print 60.0×45.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
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![]() "Apple Ring Project" 1982 Copperplate print 60.0×45.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
![]() "Triangle Wave Project" 1982 Copperplate print 60.0×45.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
![]() "Sky Katana Project" 1982 Lithograph 90.0×63.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
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![]() "Sky Gate Project" 1982 Lithograph 90.0×63.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
![]() "Rainbow Gate Project" 1982 Lithograph 90.0×63.0cm Ed. 50 Signed |
![]() "Stone Vector" 1982 Lithograph 90.0×63.0cm Ed. 45 Signed |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Black" c.1977 Sculpture, black granite 40×40×30cm SOLD |
![]() "From Cube to the Mountains" Black granite W60.5xH30.5xD30.3cm Signed SOLD |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Cone" 1974 Black granite W47.5xH45.0x46.0cm Signed and dated underneath SOLD |
![]() "Phase - Mother Earth" 1989 Bronze W84.0xH33.5xD56.5cm Signed, titled, and dated SOLD |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Moon" Cast iron W13.0xH16.5xD17.0cm SOLD |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Two Pyramids" 1972 Iron W27.0xH30.0xD27.0cm Signed and dated SOLD |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Crown" 1975 Black granite W27.0xH64.0xD22.5cm +Base: W20.0xH20.0xD20.0cm Signed and dated SOLD |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Cone" Black granite W52.0xH47.0xD52.cm SOLD |
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![]() "Sky Pedestal" 1992 Krishna stone W61.5xH61.5xD10.0cm +Base: W42.3xH6.3xD19.4cm Signed SOLD |
![]() "Phase of Nothingness - Rainbow" 1981 W131.5xH67.0xD23.0cm Signed SOLD |
![]() "Aijin Tower" W18.5xH129.5xD18.0cm +Base: W43.0xH24.0xD44.5cm Signed SOLD |
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![]() "Phase of Nothingness-Skin 14" 2015 Acrylic on canvas, wooden frame, plywood 101.6x81.3cm Signed SOLD |
![]() Phase Conception “The Stone Age”(G25-20) 1988 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 80.0×65.0cm (25) Signed SOLD |
![]() Phase Conception "From inside an Oval" (G15-37) 1988 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 65.5×53.0cm (F15) Signed SOLD |
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![]() Phase Conception "The lmmortal" (G8-133) 1989 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 45.5×37.5cm (F8) Signed SOLD |
![]() Phase Conception "Shifting Time" (G6-80) 1988 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 41.0×32.0cm (F6) Signed SOLD |
![]() Phase Conception "Project of Rainbow Gate" (G10-184) 1989 Phase Conception (Mixed media, gold) 53.0×45.0cm (F10) Signed SOLD |
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![]() "G3-15 Circle Turned Inside Out" 1987 Mixed media 27.5×22.6cm Signed SOLD |
![]() "Moon rain" 1988 Gold foil、Canvas 45.5x38.0cm Signed on the back SOLD |
![]() "Three Mountains" 1976 Reflecting bronze plate 12.0×28.0×9.0cm Ed. 30 Engraved signature on the object, box signed with brush SOLD |
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Makoto Uyeda,
ed. Nobuo Sekine, 1968-78.
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