Kan Yasuda

(Hokkaido, Japan, 1945)

Kan Yasuda was born in the city of Babai in Hokkaido, Japan, in 1945. He obtained a diploma in sculpture from the Postgraduate Academy of the University of Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in 1969. In 1970 he travelled to Italy on a scholarship from the Italian Government and studied with Professor Pericle Fazzini at the Academy of Art in Rome. Since then, he has had his studio in Pietrasanta, a place famous for its marble works, where he has continued to develop his creative activity. Starting from a deepening of the very roots of oriental culture, from his experiences with nature and from the importance he attaches to line in his careful designs, Yasuda has refined his research to the point of absorbing and developing an intuitive perception of western culture. After his first solo exhibition at the Galleria 88 in Rome in 1973, he has participated in numerous public art exhibitions such as the International Exhibition of Open Air Sculpture, France, 1984; “Art and Architecture”, Milan 1991; Solo exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Great Britain, 1994; Solo exhibition at the Economist Building Square, London, 1995. In 1992 he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Japanese Ministry of Culture.