Fumio YAMAZAKI

Japanese　1974

B.F.A., Sculpture Department of Tama Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan

His art works are made of one piece of camphor tree's wood with the technique called "Ichiboku-zukuri" (to make sculpture on one same piece of wood), the colors are added in the second time. The series "Silent Neighbor”, which he has started in 2006, is based on anthropomorphized creatures that got the body of a child and the head of a domestic animal, with lonely and sorrowful eyes. These figures create an inimitable presence, making the viewer feels a sense of peace and of calm but in a slightly warp and imbalance atmosphere.

The artist has said: "It can be possible, that the reason of the variant forms of my works, is that I would like to answer affirmatively through my projecting as a producer myself. Onto vagueness of the existence, I want to make a form which is certain."

Solo Exhibitions

2013 “Solo Exhibition by FUMIO YAMAZAKI”, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011 “Solo Exhibition by FUMIO YAMAZAKI”, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2008 “Solo Exhibition by FUMIO YAMAZAKI”, Imura Art Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2006 “Silent neighbor”, Space Roundish, Osaka, Japan

Group Exhibitions

1998 “Contemporary Primitive chapter III,V,”, Pepper's Gallery, Tokyo
2003 “Open Studio”, Sagamihara Citizen's Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan
2005 “Artist's summer holiday”, Gallery YU, Kanagawa, Japan
2011 “ZIPANGU”, Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Osaka Takashimaya, Kyoto Takashimaya, Japan
2012 “ZIPANGU”, The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
2013 “ZIPANGU”, Takasaki City Museum of Art, Takasaki, Akita Museum of Modern, Art, Japan