Tetsuro Yamasaki

Place: Nagasaki

Born: 1958

Biography:

Tetsuro Yamasaki was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1958. He studied sculpture at Tokyo's Zokei University, graduating in 1986. After graduation, he started producing sculpted works and teaching the next generation of artists in Tokyo. He has won multiple sculpture competitions and is represented in major collections including Nihon-Kokka-En and Asago Sculpture Park. Yamasaki produces abstract metal sculptures which he twists and inverts with perceived ease, producing mysterious space between the surfaces. As he creates he imagines man's surprise and excitement at discovering iron.