Works by Professor Emeritus Morio Shinoda on display at the Taigei Library

Until now, the Arts and Social Contribution Promotion Office has displayed ceramics from the Ishii Collection in front of the counter on the second floor of the Taigei Library, but this time we will be holding a satellite exhibition of the UTAC University of Tsukuba Art Collection. We have decided to show you the work ``TC2'' by Professor Emeritus of our university, Morio Shinoda.

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Mr. Shinoda won the Kotaro Takamura Award in 1966 and exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale, solidifying his foothold as an artist. From 1979 to 94, he studied in the School of Fine Arts and the Graduate School of Fine Arts in the Master's Program in the Department of Art and Design. He taught as a professor.In addition to her career as an active artist, her teaching achievements made her the first Asian to receive the ISC International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Sculpture Educator Award.

The work ``TC6106'' in our university's collection is inspired by the structural theory of American thinker, designer, and architect Buckminster Fuller, and has been his life's work since the 1950s.The work is based on the tension and pressure of steel wire. This piece is part of the ``TC (Tension and Compression)'' three-dimensional work series in which a lump of metal is fixed in a hollow space.

(In the image posted on the website, the work is placed in a wooden box with a drawing drawn by Mr. Shinoda, but that wooden box will not be exhibited.)

[Art Social Contribution Promotion Office/Rintaro Terakado]