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Advisor | Shinji Toshita | Honorary Chairman of Sanda International Exchange Committee / former mayor of Sanda |
Chair | Susumu Shingu | sculptor |
Vice Chair | Tetsuo Mori | director of Hanshin-kita citizen's bureau of Hyogo Prefecture |
Masatake Yoshioka | Deputy Mayor of Sanda | |
Yoshio Hata | Professor, School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University | |
Kazuto Tanaka | ceramic artist | |
Treasurer | Norio Bono | resident of Aimoto |
Executive Director | Shinobu Nakamura | director of Machizukuri Sanda |
Auditor | Norihiro Takahashi | designer, owner of Sanda Studio |
Akira Maenaka | former deputy mayor of Sanda | |
Committee Members | Koichi Kawasaki | Assistant to the director, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art |
Yasuo Yagi | Professor, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University | |
Masahito Sekiguchi | representative, Sekiguchi Ballet School / member of Sanda City Council | |
Shinichi Goto | director, Sanda Cultural Center | |
Kaoru Nakanishi | president, Sanda Tourism Association | |
Manabu Bono | former head, Iwakura Village | |
Tadashi Kitora | head, Iwakura Vilage | |
Shiko Miyake | sculptor | |
Makoto Iida | painter, professor, Osaka Shinai College | |
Hidoyo Kugo | Manager, Culture and Sports Division, Sanda city |
support : | Hyogo Prefecture, City of Sanda |
collaboration : | Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art Kwansei Gakuin University (School of Policy Studies / School of Science and Technology) |
planning : | Susumu Shingu |
organization : | Executive Committee of Atelier in the Rice Paddies |
cooperation : | Suntory Holdings Limited, Fukei-Secolo Co., Ltd., ISSEY MIYAKE INC., Ken Miki & Associates, Kinkouen Ltd., SAKURA COLOR PRODUCTS CORP. |
Born in Osaka in 1937. Went to Italy after graduating from Tokyo University of Arts. During his six years stay in Italy, his style changed from two-dimensional to three-dimensional and to kinetic sculptures. Since then he has been making sculptures that move by the natural energies of wind and water now found all around the world.
His "Wind Caravan" traveled from 2000 to 2001 to six of the most characteristic landscapes of nature on Earth. Shingu exhibited the wind sculptures as installations in each area's landscape, collaborating with the people who live there and learning from them and their lifestyles.
Shingu is known as the author of picture books as well such as Strawberries, Spider and Wind Planet.
Perhaps the most popular among his permanent sculptures is "Boundless Sky" at Kansai International Airport. "Water Tree" at Aono Dam Park and "Poem of the Earth" at JR Shinsanda station are well known in Sanda, Hyogo, Japan.