Fountain, 1991. Burned wood, tar, and fire, 75 x 130 cm. each.

Facing the Void: A Conversation with Toshikatsu Endo

Toshikatsu Endo’s sculptures confront ancient times and urges. With materials such as bones, wood, water, and fire, they become primal devices leading back to the essence of human existence. For Endo, art is a special field that oscillates between linguistic and non-linguistic tendencies, that can use construction and destruction to go beyond the limits of language. …see the entire article in the print version of June’s Sculpture magazine.