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美術館 > ENGLISH > EXHIBITION > Temporary Exhibitions > 1990-1999 > Charles Despiau 1874-1946

Sato Churyo

2 April - 8 May 1994

 

Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m.

Entry is permitted thirty minutes before the galleries are closed.

Closed: Closed on Mondays

 

Admission: charged

 

One of the dominant figures in the representational sculptural world of modern Japan, Churyo Sato, has used people around him as models and constantly created heads with a strong sense of life and spirituality, and statues of children and women with sophisticated forms and warmth of humanity since the post-war period. He has won a great popularity and praises since then.

 

Churyo Sato was born in Miyagi prefecture in 1912, and spent his youth in Hokkaido until he decided to go to Tokyo in order to be a painter. After his encounter with works by sculptors such as Bourdelle and Maillol, however, his goal became to be a sculptor and graduated from the Sculpture Faculty of the Tokyo School of Arts.

 

Although Sato won prizes at the Kokugakaiten while learning as a student, he joined in establishing the Shinseisakuha Kyokai Chokokuten after his graduation. His artistic activity was, however, discontinued when he was called into the armed forces at the age of 32. After his detention in Siberia, he came back to Japan in 1948 and began active creation once again, mainly for the Shinseisakuten.

 

Sato’s sculptural style was first shaped by the influence of modern French sculptors headed by Rodin, but he received credits for his accomplishment as the first Japanese sculptor who created a face with the Japanese identity in his work in 1952, Man of Gunma. This sculpture has become significant not only for its role in establishing Sato’s reputation as a sculptor, but also for its contribution to the history of the post-war representational sculptures.

 

Many of Sato’s sculptures created since then, with his sensibility and expression in plastic arts based on the Japanese natural features, reveal a peak in the world of modern representational sculpture in Japan.

 

This exhibition consists of 97 sculptures ranging from the Face of Mother in 1942 to a recent work, Blouse, as well as 58 sketches, 11 illustrations for publications, and picture books, all of which reveal Sato’s great talent in drawing.

 

Our special thanks go to Mr. Chury Sato, whose help enabled us to have this exhibition. We are also greatly thankful for Japan Broadcasting Corporation Tsu Station, the Cultural Foundation of Okada, the Miyagi Museum of Art, and others for their support for this exhibition.

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