is a contemporary artist who works in Belgium, China, and Mexico. Sone studied architecture at . From 2000 to 2003, he taught sculpture at

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as a visiting instructor.

Work

His great love and fascination for nature, combined with an open approach to life and art, galvanizes a highly unconventional art. Sone works in various media and is primarily known for his sculpture - including marble and crystal carving and installations - but he also paints, creates performance art, and creates films. Some of Sone’s sculptural works include cities or sceneries carved into large blocks of marble, and oversized snowflakes carved out of single pieces of natural crystal. Sone does not exploit the heritage of one particular culture through his work, but instead draws on his extensive travels as he strives to create a singular poetic vocabulary connected to culture at large.

Exhibitions

Sone's work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Maison Hermès Le Forum, Tokyo from December 2010 to February 2010 and at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from January 2011 to March 2011. His 25-foot tall sculpture, titled ''Baby Banana Tree'', was installed as a public artwork at the Boone Sculpture Garden,

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in Pasadena, California, in 2009. Other recent solo exhibitions include Parasol unit for contemporary art, London (2007),

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, New York (1999, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2016), Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (2006), Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado (2006), The

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at the University of Chicago, Illinois (2006), Yutaka Sone at the Renaissance Society

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(2003), and Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan (2002). His work has been shown internationally including the

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(2003) where he had a two-person exhibit in the Japanese pavilion, and numerous important group exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois (2005), and the

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(2004).

References

External links

Yutaka Sone Biography at Tommy Simoens"Yutaka Sone’s Hot Tropics and Marble Cityscapes" by Hilarie M. Sheets
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sone, Yutaka 1965 births Living people Japanese contemporary artists