2018

Sculpture, Architecture

Size: 150✖️240✖️240/mm

This work is both sculpture and architecture. This work aims at two-facedness. Sculptures appeal to human emotion by visual effects. Spirituality is primary important for them. In case of architecture which is made as calculated, functionality is primary important. At first glance, sculptures and architecture seem different. Polykeitos, an ancient Greek sculptor pursued ideal proportion of human body and wrote a book named "Canon". Vitruvius, a ancient Roman architect is the author of  "On Architect", wrote about the proportion of human body and said that the temple building should be in harmony as with the human body. Leonard da Vinci's best known drawing "Vitruvian man: Canon of Proportions" (collection of Accademia Musium) is based on the concepts of proportion developed by Vitruvius. Then led to the modern, Gropius, a German architect wrote a book "International Architect". He says that the architecture designed to function properly is bound to the canon of proportion and the proportion is a matter of the spiritual world.Both sculptures and architecture are bound to the canon of proportions and are linked together with spirituality through its canon. This work is neither human body nor temple building. This work is a kind of "Mass"."Mass" means a 3-dimensional bodies in sculpture. On the other hand, it also means 3-dimensional bodies with a space surrounded by them in architecture. You can see it as a kind of "box" in a sculptural point of view, and also see it as a kind of "space" with a function as a staircase in an architectural point of view. At the same time it is bound to the canon of proportions. The choice and the evaluation are entrusted to the viewer.