Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fallen into ruin. Refurbished with the aid of nearly $500,000 from Frederick W. Beinecke, S. & H. trading-stamp executive, plus construction materials donated at cost by the George A. Fuller Co., the barn will be featured, in photographs, as part of a display in the U.S. pavilion at Osaka's 1970 world's fair...
...Watch. At 31, Shingu is among Japan's most important young artists-and Osaka's shipyard is his workshop. The floating mobile is one of the six nearly identical sculptures that Kenzo Tange, the designer in charge of Osaka's upcoming Expo '70, has commissioned him to provide for the fair's Lake of Progress. "Shingu's mobiles are never ponderous or solemn," Tange says, "but always as they should be: great fun to watch." Many others obviously agree. For their pavilion at the world's fair, Japan's gas companies have...
...Born in Osaka, the artist was encouraged to take up painting by his father, a businessman who was also a Sunday painter. Shingu studied oil painting at Tokyo University of Arts, and in 1960 went to Rome's famed Academia di Belle Arti. For months he devotedly copied early-Renaissance masterpieces. Then abruptly he turned abstract, eventually took up mobiles because they can be placed anywhere, indoors...
...Sake of Japan. Still in Rome in 1966, he served as a sightseeing guide for a visiting Japanese industrialist, Kageki Minami, president of the Osaka Shipbuilding Co. Minami admittedly knew nothing about art, but metalwork was his business. When he saw the mobiles in Shingu's Roman studio, he invited Shingu to come back to Japan and live and work in his shipyard, where there would be plenty of welders and painters to help him-to say nothing of unlimited amounts of scrap steel to work with...
Today Shingu and his wife and infant daughter occupy a converted bathhouse in the center of the Osaka yard. Despite the din, he says: "I feel elated working in a wide-open space away from all those small, restrictive ateliers." With help from many deckhands, he assembled his first one-man show in Tokyo last summer...