Kozo Nishino
Japanese sculptor and kinetic artist
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Kozo Nishino (born 1951) is a Japanese sculptor and kinetic artist born in Hyogo Prefecture. He graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Kyoto City University of Arts in 1977.[1]
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| Born | 7 August 1951 Hyogo, Japan |
| Occupations | Artist, sculptor |
| Years active | 1984–present |
Notable works
He has numerous large-scale public works throughout Japan. He was featured in the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field.[2]
His large scale public work titled, In the Wind, is a metallic sculpture of a saxophone. He originally created it in 1988 and the work was presented in Kobe. The work was recreated in 2003 in front of the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama.[3]
In 2013, he was commissioned and created a 30-meter-diameter titanium arc in the 4 World Trade Center building which faces the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City.[4][5]
In 2018, Nishino created a series of kinetic public art works, including Breezing in Canberra and In the Stream, at the National Arboretum in Canberra, Australia.[6]