Minoru Niizuma
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Minoru Niizuma, also known as Minoru Niijuma, was a Japanese abstract sculptor. He was born in Tokyo in 1930 and died in Long Island, 5 September 1998.
He graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1955, and from 1954 through 1958 he exhibited with the Modern Art Association. Niizuma moved to New York in 1959, and from 1964 through 1970 he was an instructor at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. From 1972 through 1984, he was adjunct professor at Columbia University. Niizuma worked mostly marble, but also granite, vulcanic rock and other materials. His designs would vary from geometrical to organical and, sometimes, his references were reminiscent from folk art. His works shows the inluence of the oriental asian tradition and the western contemporary art.
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D. C.), the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Mie Prefectural Art Museum (Tsu City, Japan), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo), the Seibu Museum (Tokyo), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York York City) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, are among the public collections holding works by Niizuma. He participated in São Miguel Island, Azores, at an international rock sculpture symposium, creating his work "Azores" (1987), in vulcanic rock, now shown in Ponta Delgada.
[edit] References
- Gilot, Francoise and Minoru Niizuma, “Minoru Niizuma: Sculpture, Francoise Gilot: Floating Paintings”, Blue Hill Plaza Associates, 1989.
- Niizuma, Minoru, “Niizuma”, Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna, 1986.
