Nobuo Sekine Artist
Nobuo Sekine (関根伸夫, Sekine Nobuo), born in [1942], is a Japanese sculptor currently living in both Saitama, Japan, and Los Angeles, California.He is one of the key members of Mono-ha, a group of artists who became prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Mono-ha artists explored the encounter between natural and industrial materials, such as stone, steel plates, glass, light bulbs, cotton, sponge, paper, wood, wire, rope, leather, oil, and water, arranging them in mostly unaltered, ephemeral states. The works focus as much on the interdependency of these various elements and the surrounding space as on the materials themselves.