shinichi sawada ARTICLE | RAW VISION MAGAZINE

Shinichi Sawada, courtesy Nakayoshi Fukushikai institution

In Raw Vision Magazine #102 from 2019, Japanese curator Mizue Kobayashi shares more about the practice of Japanese self-taught artist Shinichi Sawada. As he is mostly non-verbal, this is taken from conversations with the staff that work with Sawada. Read the full article as a PDF through the link below.

“Shinichi Sawada works silently and calmly, his fingers moving with complete certainty and dexterity to create his distinctive clay sculptures. At 37, he is one of the most recognised art brut artists from Japan, but he himself does not grasp people’s fascination with his work.”