Hiroyoshi ASAKA "KASHOUMON -Air Duck- 5"

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A popular contemporary artist active both in Japan and overseas!
Valuable artwork by Hiroyoshi ASAKA is now available!
It's a marble sculpture, not a styrofoam one!!!

Artist:
Hiroyoshi ASAKA
material:
Marble
Size:
H 6.0 × W 7.5 × D 6.0 cm
Artist
signature:
The signature of Hiroyoshi Asaka is engraved on the bottom of the piece.
Accessories:
Comes with original box with signed certificate sticker

*This piece is a one-of-a-kind original by Hiroyoshi Asaka.
*Please refer to the images for the items for sale.

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This is a small piece based on a duck figurine by Hiroyoshi Asaka, a contemporary artist who creates three-dimensional sculptures using marble.

Duck figures are familiar to Japanese people.
It may give the illusion that it is made from styrofoam, but it is actually a work of modern art intricately carved from solid marble.
Styrofoam, a light and brittle material created by modern scientific inventions, is imitated and replaced by marble, a hard and heavy material formed over eons of time since antiquity.

Asaka's reason for choosing polystyrene foam as his subject of imitation reflects his own keen observation of modern society.
Like the plastic duck figures that children enjoy floating in the bath, polystyrene foam, which is made by inflating resin, is one of the materials used all over the world today.
However, despite their convenience, mass-produced resin products are directly linked to humanity's waste problems and environmental pollution.

Asaka uses marble, a material created by nature over millions of years, to imitate its polar opposite, providing insight into the environmental problems facing humanity.

Why not add a piece of contemporary art with a strong presence and deep message to your home interior or to your art collection?

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Hiroyoshi ASAKA

Born in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture (1977-)
Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts

Asaka, who spent his childhood in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, a town with a 600-year history of Japanese swords and blades, sublimates his origins into contemporary art works.

Starting with the "KABUKIMON" series of Japanese swords made from marble, he currently produces the "KASHOUMON" series, which creates optical illusions by imitating polystyrene foam with marble.

A contemporary artist who has had numerous solo and group exhibitions at art fairs and galleries both in Japan and overseas, as well as art galleries in major department stores, and who has many collectors and fans.

[Media Appearances]
BS Fuji "Breakthrough: The Next Generation of Artists" (2018)
Appeared in the Fuji TV drama "Suits" (2018)
Nippon Television "Burari Tochuu-desha no Tabi" (2022)
Nippon Television "THE ART HOUSE ~Will that art be preserved for 100 years?~" (2023)

[Major exhibition history]
Art Fair Tokyo
ART TAIPEI
ART FAIR PHILIPPINES
ART MIAMI
EXPO CHICAGO
ART BASEL VOLTA
ART OSAKA
Art Central Hong Kong
In addition, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and major department stores both in Japan and overseas.

[Recent exhibition history]
ART@GINZA (Hotel Monterey Ginza/2025)
Hiroyoshi Asaka Solo Exhibition (ASAHIDO GALLERY, Palace Hotel Tokyo / 2024)
Hiroyoshi Asaka Solo Exhibition (Tsutaya Bookstore, Kyoto/2024)
Artistic Bird Encyclopedia (Hanshin Department Store Umeda Main Store/2024)
Hiroyoshi Asaka Solo Exhibition (Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore/2023)