Special Exhibition Zbynek Sekal (The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex)

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An approach to a shrine near the west side of the Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine in Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Annex. Thus, the museum is collection, work sculptor of Czech Republic, of Zubinekku-Sequard has several points, it was exhibited as a special exhibition.

For Zubinekku-Sequard, previously, in this museum, there is the work called by the animal, and received a strong impression.

The work, strange creatures of three-legged is expressed. Include the line, part equal to the face, has become a crumpled, rather than the animal, it looks like a insect.

In any case, once seen, its shape, image, records in my mind.

Born in Prague in 1923, the second World War, Sequard had been sent to concentration camps by the Nazis.

After the war, there was also working for the publisher, it was translated into Czech works of Kafka. Immersed in the making of sculpture since the 1960s, and lived in Vienna since 1966. He died in the Vienna in 1998.

The venue, work of about 30 points about was on display. Sculpture in bronze, creature the human face, such as animals and birds, like a building, such as, most versatile.

When I see the work of Sequard, the shape, feel you do not have to worry a fixed concept, as is full of free ideas of writer.

In addition, the form is simple really, a symbolic impression is strong.

He have an experience that was spent in the concentration camps, but the work, such experience, does not seem to affect the direct.

Short rods various shapes have been combined, bronzes named movable structure looks like a building or like wood elongated.

It also looks like a totem pole, and it also looks like the so-called World Tree.

Is not limited to this work, work Sequard is wide open to the world. Nobody accepted not rejected, who, in any way as to interpret the work, and not care.

This exhibition, named Zubinekku-Sequard was supposed to be engraved deeply in my heart.