Isao Sugiyama

Japan, 1954

Isao Sugiyama was Born 1954 in Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan.
He Studied at the University of Art in Tokyo-Zokei where he majored in sculpture in 1977. 1983 he took his degree of specialization at the same university. In the same year he moved to Italy in order to attend a course of sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti at Carrara and graduated in 1990.
Isao Sugiyama lives and works in Italy.

“…The artist perfectly combines extremes which are unlikely to be compatible: heat, cold, marble and wood, the transitory and the lasting, full and empty. The extremely fascinating side of his work lies in the sense of creating a link between opposing elements. Between inside and outside, for example, and the home is perfect for this, as it protects from things which are outside and, at the same time, creates a relationship between Man and nature. And this intuition is fundamental.”