Kenji Takahashi

Japan, 1957

Kenji Takahashi was born in Kitagata, Gifu, Japan, in 1957. He graduated in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts Tokyo-Zokei and post graduated in 1984.

In 1981 moved to Italy to attend a course in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

Since 1992 lives and works in Italy.

“…Resonance, therefore, of the thought Zen, in the work of the Japanise Kenji Takahashi: constructions of discontinuous and open worlds framed by the void and not void framed, physiological ambitions of space, but of a space that invariably loses its place, that loses its centre: finally adventures of a subject worked by the break and by the subtraction. But the true sense of the sculpture is there, in that continuous trauma, in that broken event, in his exist-not to exist. It doesn't concern however the elaboration (all western!) of the mourning, but really of the presentation of an endless origin, of the practice of the concise language, as if the everything was inexpressible or as if could still be said always something. The same fragments that structure the sculpture are not to read him as separations, but as added; signs that deny the definition for an further (of a void) that it allows the look to penetrate and of "to create him" its height.”