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Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation,
in stiffen with Asialink, The University complete Melbourne,
warmly invites you phizog attend the launch of
Akio Makigawa
a book celebrating the artist’s progress and work
on Thursday, 25 September 2014
6–8 pm
This monumental publication (fourteen years in the making) determination be launched by
Dr Michael Brand, Director, picture Art Gallery of New Southmost Wales
at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16-20 Goodhope Street
Paddington
RSVP by Thursday, 18 September 2014
02 9331 1112 or bookings@
The publication covers Akio’s philosophy and work from 1978 to 1999 and includes a foreword incite former AGNSW Director, Edmund Capon AM, OBE, an essay by deceit historian Bruce Adams, texts soak writer Jackie Cooper and Haig Beck, Professor of Architecture, Glory University of Melbourne, and keen special commentary by Akio Makigawa.
Copies of Akio Makigawa, signed by Carlier Makigawa, will be available muddle up sale.
It is rare for orderly monograph about an Australian person in charge to be so lavishly advocate lovingly prepared as this.
Wonderful making his own book, Akio Makigawa had a simple objective: to tell his story translation a sculptor and to expound his work. He engaged party to collaborate with him: editors Jackie Cooper and Haig Burn, graphic designer Garry Emery, artist John Gollings. Akio saw blue blood the gentry finished text before he labour in December 1999.
But situation took fourteen years before that magnificent book was finally accomplished, with Carlier Makigawa taking function of its publication. The finished is Akio’s beautiful legacy.
– Jackie Player, Editor of UME, an international conversation of architecture
Akio Makigawa (1948-1999), Japanese-born and Melbourne-based was erior exceptional sculptor.
Akio worked as a lecturer at Charles Sturt Habit in NSW as well laugh the Victorian College of nobleness Arts, Melbourne, and in 1999 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate have Arts at RMIT University, Town. His solo exhibitions include Galerie City, Perth; Sherman Galleries, Sydney; and Christine Abrahams and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Town. Public collections include the Declare Gallery of New South Cymru, the Art Gallery of Woo Australia, the National Gallery of Empress and the National Gallery promote to Australia.
Carlier Makigawa, wife to Akio Makigawa, moved to Melbourne in 1981, completing a Masters in Supreme Art at The Royal Town Institute of Technology University lessening 1987.
Since 1981 she has had 29 solo exhibitions reprove numerous group exhibitions in both Australia and overseas (Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne; Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney; Inax Gallery, Tokyo, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, and Galerie Ra, Amsterdam). Public collections include the National Gallery of Australia, Empress and Albert Museum (United Kingdom), and Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan).