Noriyuki Haraguchi

Noriyuki Haraguchi

Born 1946 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Nihon University College of Art in 1970, and was one of the pioneers of the 'Mono-ha' school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His installations, in which oil is poured all over a pool surrounded by steel plates, are called oil pools, and the specular reflection of the oil surface and the deep blackness of the oil work together to create a coexistence of tranquility and roughness that is uniquely original. While focusing on the form of matter as a subject matter, he looked at the relationship between humans and society, and created delicate yet powerful works.

2020 Death
2019 ”Setouchi International Art Festival” Tamano, Okayama.
2019 “Substance and Motion” Asia art center, Taipei, Taiwan. (Solo show)
2018 “Continuation and Practice” Plan B, Tokyo, Japan. (Solo show)
2017 "Noriyuki Haraguchi” Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan.
2017 "Noriyuki Haraguchi" Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2017 “Acconut of trip Haraguchi" Teheran museum, Iran.
2015 “MONO-HA” Foundation Mudima, Milan, Italy.
2012 “Tokyo 1955-1970 : A New Avant Garde” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
2011 “Noriyuki Haraguchi” Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan.
2005 “Mono ha Reconsidered” The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.
2001 “Haraguchi” Lenbachhaus museum, München, Germany.
1977 “Documenta 6” Kassel, Germany.
1970 Graduated from Nihon University, College of Arts, Department of Fine Arts.
1946 Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.

Message From The Artist

Art transcends space and time, and back-illuminates fantasy, imagination, and so on. So, for me, it's a sense of backlighting, of backlighting blows and struggles, if I were to verbalize it. I don't like the idea of feeling good while I am wrapped in a mask, it makes me feel uncomfortable, or rather it makes me feel mushy.