Nobuo Sekine was a Japanese artist central to the Mono-ha movement. His seminal work “Phase—Mother Earth,” a large cylinder of raw earth paired with its excavated void, set the tone for Mono-ha’s emphasis on material presence and the relationships between objects and space.
Sekine’s later sculptures explore gravity, surface, and the quiet drama of simple materials.
Nobuo Sekine was a Japanese Mono-ha artist known for works that highlight raw material, mass, and void.
Nobuo Sekine was a Japanese artist known for Mono-ha works that foreground natural materials and the spatial tension between mass and emptiness.
