Index Code:

ART-SPC-SEK

Orgin:

Japan

Field Notes:

Soil cylinders and excavated holes present matter removed and matter present as one sculpture

Defining Moment:

Phase Mother Earth where a dug pit and adjacent column show ground as modular structural material

Nobuo Sekine

(

1942–2019

)

no-bwo seh-kee-neh

Sekine built a world where matter revealed its own conditions — soil, stone, and void arranged as perceptual thresholds.

His sculptures clarified presence as event, each mass holding silence like a structural interval.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Nobuo Sekine’s work, this approach appears where matter directly establishes form.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Nobuo Sekine’s work, this approach appears where matter directly establishes form.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Mono-ha

Material relationships are revealed through placement, tension, and natural conditions.

Nobuo Sekine

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

In Dialogue

Nobuo Sekine

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue