Set of 6 postcards by Takamasa Kuniyasu, published by Het Apollohuis in 1992. The Japanese artist, born in 1957, is internationally renowned for his monumental-scale wood and ceramic brick installations that explore the relationship between nature, construction, and traditional Japanese aesthetics. Kuniyasu has exhibited at prestigious institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Gallery of Canada, and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His work addresses the concept of "Return to Self" - a fusion with nature that serves as the basis for identity, employing thousands of handmade ceramic bricks and logs in installations that blur the boundaries between chaos and order, miniature and monument. These postcards document his extraordinary sculptural interventions at Het Apollohuis, where he created site-specific installations using nearly 50,000 ceramic blocks and 3,500 logs, building tornado-like structures that seemed to grow organically through the gallery space.
Kuniyasu's meticulous yet improvisational approach creates environments that resemble both construction sites and ruins, effectively contrasting whole and part, round and square, manufactured and natural. His participation in the legendary A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors exhibition (1990-1991) established him as a key figure in the post-Mono-ha movement, continuing the tradition of revealing materials' inner essence through spatial and temporal confrontation.
These rare postcards capture the enigmatic energy inherent in Kuniyasu's work, where the physical process of building and the time spent arranging materials become integral to the artistic experience. Essential documentation of one of Japan's most important contemporary sculptors.
Paperback w/ Cardbox, 16 x 23,5 cm, 156 pp.