Hidetoshi Nagasawa — Japanese Contemporary Sculpture
Hidetoshi Nagasawa (30 October 1940–24 March 2018) was a Japanese sculptor and architect, who lived and worked in Italy from 1967 until his death in 2018 “Strongly evocative as well as being of highly symbolic and lyrical value, the works of Hidetoshi Nagasawa (Tonei, 1940) are always intensely permeated with Far Eastern philosophy, thereby leading to research that syncretically combines the spiritual heritage of the East and of the West, filtered through crossreferences and ideas stemming from an experiential and human dimension that he has never disregarded. The artist and his family moved from Manchuria to Japan, and already in the 1950s he became familiar with the various trends in avant-garde art through his contact with the Gutaj group as well as by regularly visiting the independent exhibitions organized by the magazine “Yamiuri.”
