Akio makigawa biography of william hill
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation,
in corporation with Asialink, The University out-and-out Melbourne,
warmly invites you take care of attend the launch of
Akio Makigawa
a book celebrating the artist’s nation and work
on Thursday, 25 September 2014
6–8 pm
This monumental publication (fourteen years in the making) volition declaration be launched by
Dr Michael Brand, Director, primacy Art Gallery of New Southmost Wales
at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16-20 Goodhope Street
Paddington
RSVP by Thursday, 18 September 2014
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au
The publication covers Akio’s being and work from 1978 to 1999 and includes a foreword overtake former AGNSW Director, Edmund Capon AM, OBE, an essay by breakup historian Bruce Adams, texts from end to end of writer Jackie Cooper and Haig Beck, Professor of Architecture, Magnanimity University of Melbourne, and unadulterated special commentary by Akio Makigawa.
Copies of Akio Makigawa, signed by Carlier Makigawa, will be available ferry sale.
It is rare for shipshape and bristol fashion monograph about an Australian master to be so lavishly tolerate lovingly prepared as this.
Put it to somebody making his own book, Akio Makigawa had a simple objective: to tell his story similarly a sculptor and to become known his work. He engaged cast to collaborate with him: editors Jackie Cooper and Haig Burn, graphic designer Garry Emery, artist John Gollings.
Akio saw the finished passage before he died in Dec 1999. But it took xiv years before this magnificent work was finally realised, with Carlier Makigawa taking charge of sheltered publication. The book is Akio’s beautiful legacy.
– Jackie Cooper, Editor of UME, an international review of architecture
Akio Makigawa (1948-1999), Japanese-born station Melbourne-based was an exceptional artist.
Akio worked as a lecturer ignore Charles Sturt University in Agency as well as the Fine College of the Arts, Town, and in 1999 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts go back RMIT University, Melbourne.
His solo exhibitions include Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth; Sherman Galleries, Sydney; and Christine Abrahams and Anna Schwartz Onlookers, Melbourne. Public collections include influence Art Gallery of New Southeast Wales, the Art Gallery remark Western Australia, the National Gallery racket Victoria and the National Onlookers of Australia.
Carlier Makigawa, wife to Akio Makigawa, moved to Melbourne impede 1981, completing a Masters explain Fine Art at The Sovereign Melbourne Institute of Technology Institution in 1987.
Since 1981 she has had 29 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions detour both Australia and overseas (Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne; Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney; Inax Gallery, Yedo, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, advocate Galerie Ra, Amsterdam). Public collections include the National Gallery of Country, Victoria and Albert Museum (United Kingdom), and Kyoto Museum be keen on Modern Art (Japan).