“16/27 Cube” 1986
Stainless steel
18x18x18cm
©Masakazu Horiuchi, Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates.
Profile
1911 Born in Kyoto, Japan.
1926 Moved to Zoshigaya, Tokyo.
1927 Influenced by the writings of Tomoyoshi Murayama, creates Constructivist-style works using wood, wire and white paint.
1928 Entered Tokyo College of Industrial Arts (now Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University), Department of Industrial Arts / Sculpture.
1940 Stopped exhibiting works until 1945. From 1941 until around 1946, studied philosophy, art, and religion with Keiichi Koyama.
1954 Began working on welded sculptures composed of geometric forms.
2001 Died of pneumonia on April 13.
Selected Exhibitions
1936
Exhibited abstract sculpture for the first time in the 23rd Nika Exhibition.
1946
Exhibited Atsuko’s Head in the 10th Shinseisaku Art Society exhibition.
1953
Abstraction and Fantasy: How to Understand Non-figurative (Non-realistic) Painting, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1957
4th São Paulo Biennale, Brazil.
1963
Solo exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.
1967
Guggenheim International Art Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1968
Fluorescent Chrysanthemum – Contemporary Art of Japan, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Vancouver Art Gallery.
1971
2nd Triennale–India, New Delhi.
1978
Solo Exhibition, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, Japan.
1980
Yamaguchi Takeo and Horiuti Masakazu, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1985
Solo Exhibition, Hekinan Cultural Hall, Aichi, Japan.
1986
Solo exhibition, Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1989
The Yamamura Collection Complete Works, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Japan.
2002
Sculptors Churyo Sato / Masakazu Horiuti, Fuchu Art Museum Civic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
The Unfinished Century: Legacies of 20th Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
2003
Horiuti Masakazu, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama (traveled to: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki; and Sapporo Art Park Museum, Japan).
2018
Solo Exhibition, Horiuti Masakazu: Curious Minds, Joyful Forms, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, Kanagawa, Japan.
2023
Solo Exhibition, Art as action—The abstract according to Masakazu Horiuti, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan.
Motohiro Tomii and Masakazu Horiuti, Contorting Forms, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo, Japan.
Special Display: The Path to “Tardiology”, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan.
Images and Symbols: Rereading the Art in the 1960s, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex, Kanagawa, Japan.
Selected Public Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama (Japan)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
The National Museum of Art, Osaka (Japan)
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Japan)
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan)
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, (Japan)