| Michio Fukuoka | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1936 (1936) Sakai, Japan |
| Died | (aged 87) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
Michio Fukuoka (Japanese: 福岡道雄 Fukuoka Michio; 1936 – 15 November 2023) was a Japanese sculptor.
Biography
Born in Sakai in 1936, Fukuoka was a professor of fine arts at Kansai University. He began his career in the 1950s by making plaster casts of holes he had dug in sand. In the 1960s, he created a series of sculptures resembling balloons floating in the air. In the 1970s, Michio Fukuoka produced gigantic sculptures of moths in different positions. In the 1980s, he became more focused on self-portraits in landscapes, in which he was gardening or fishing. He also created a series of wooden boxes his size, which represented coffins. In the 1990s, he created black plastic panels on which he engraved the same sentence hundreds of times in white. In the 2000s, he sculpted the "Rotten Balls", which vaguely represented testicles. In 2005, he retired from sculpting.
Fukuoka died on 15 November 2023, at the age of 87.
References
- "「つくらない彫刻家」を宣言、福岡道雄さん死去 87歳". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 16 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- "Yumiko Kimura e Akiko Fujimoto. Un incontro possibile: dialogo tra il vetro e la carta". Arte.it (in Italian).
- ^ Larking, Matthew (28 November 2017). "The beginning, end and rebirth of sculpture". The Japan Times. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- Stephens, Christopher (1 December 2017). "Plenty of Nothing: The Michio Fukuoka Exhibition". Dai Nippon Printing. Archived from the original on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- "「反芸術」運動の福岡道雄さん死去 前衛彫刻家、87歳". Sankei Shimbun (in Japanese). 16 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023.