Fujita Masatoshi was born in 1952 in Tokyo. He has consistently used a hammered metal technique in the production of his work. For this piece, a 1.2 mm thick iron sheet was heated and then hammered to create the final form, resulting in a surface that is softly reflective. The combination of the hardness conveyed by the iron framework regained its softness and the cloth-like form, seeming so tautly stretched that wrinkles have appeared, allows a new appreciation of iron. And the work takes the form of a layered cone and seems to swell with air, negating all sense of heaviness. Included in The Suntory Prize'96, this piece won the Saji's Special Encouragement Prize.
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