FUJIKO NAKAYA by Fujiko Nakaya

A collection of works by Japanese artist Nakaya Fujiko. The author is known as one of Japan's most important contemporary artists. Born in Sapporo, the author left Northwestern University in Illinois and used water to create mist sculptures, and later became part of the design in public spaces, major museums and parks around the world.

A member of New York-based collective Experiments in Arts and Technology (E.A.T.), the author who participated in the performance became internationally known for his fog works that immersed viewers in the 1960s. The mist work, produced for the Pepsi Museum at the Japan World Expo held in Osaka in 1970, overturned traditional sculpture traditions by causing temporary space changes and physically interacting with the viewer. The author's groundbreaking work, born from an early awareness of environmental protection issues, is made purely from water and air. This is a particularly important factor in the wake of climate change. This book features early paintings, fog sculptures, single-channel video works, installation works, and documentation revealing references to culture and society, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of the author's outstanding works.

The author was recognized for his outstanding achievements in the arts field, and in 2018 he received the "His Takamatsu Palace Memorial World Culture Award."

「Fog makes what you see invisible, and what you cannot see, like the wind"-Nakaya Fujiko