Good condition.
There are dirt marks due to aging throughout.

After World War II, geometric abstraction has been called ‘cold abstraction’ in contrast to ‘warm abstraction’ such as the Unformel. Masakazu Horiuchi (1911-2001) was a sculptor who had been present in post-war Japanese abstract art, which pursued geometric abstraction for more than half a century. Familiar with philosophy and Western art books, in the 1950s Horiuchi subscribed to the French magazine Art de Jourdie, which focused on geometric abstraction, and was strongly influenced by artists such as Edgar Piet and others, and began to create sculptures by welding on steel. He emphasized the idea of art as formed from consciousness, and by confronting the principles of form, he found his place in sculpture.

The present work, Outside of the Cube, is a later work, produced in 1990. Composed of multiple triangles and pyramids, by meeting the faces and vertices of those shapes, it forms a cube from a certain point of view. The refined form, whose sides are revealed by the steel's reflective properties, is typical of the artist's sculptural works.

“Tomii Motohiro and Horiuchi Masakazu: Contorting Forms”, June 17 - August 5, 2023, Yumiko Chiba Associates, Tokyo