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Zougei is a brand dedicated to the creation of wooden art furniture. Sculptor Hiroyuki Nishimura founded it together with Yoshitaka Sato and Yuri Nakahashi. Most of wood used for their works are unable to use anything, These woods are unsuitable material for furniture, or architectural use, cannot help just being waste. They dares to take them for his works because of his policy.
I have been making sculptures with "zouki" (✴????1) woods in Shonan and Izu area for around 30 years. These zoukis are twisted, branched, or split. Otherwise they are cut down by land development, or felled down by typhoons and so on. Their fates are to be broken into small chips in waste disposal sites. I think seriously that discarding them isn't a good way, nor is splitting into firewood. I constantly consider doing something with them. Although natural trees are beautiful as they are, I can't be satisfied with it as a creator. I create my original form through refining their beautiful proportions. This is a creator's mission. Whenever I meet my finished work, I remember the wind blowing through copse or the birds flying around there.
Hiroyuki Nishimura - Founder of Zougei
2004
Silver Award, 8th Kajima Sculpture Competition (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2007
Encouragement Award, 10th Kajima Sculpture Competition (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2009
Solo show of sculptures, Sekiguchi Art Museum, Tokyo (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2010
Grand Prize Award, 10th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
Solo show of sculptures, GEM Art Gallery, Tokyo (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2013
Solo show of sculptures, gallery ginza 1chome, Tokyo (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2014
Solo show of sculptures, gallery TOM, Tokyo (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
Solo show of sculptures, CCAA, Tokyo (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2016
Solo show of sculptures, gallery TOM, Tokyo. (Hiroyuki Nishimura)
2018
ZOUGEI carved furniture, Miri collection,Tokyo
2019
Portrait of zouki, Somewhere Tokyo
ZOUGEI carved furniture, Miri collection,Tokyo
Speaks beyond its life, somewhere Tokyo
2020
ZOUGEI carved furniture, OAK CUBE,Tokyo
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