To most people, stone is nothing more than a cold, hard, and even a little unforgiving material.
However, in the hands of the artist, a humorous, bizarre and even a little absurd "smile" bloomed.
These wonderful works in the picture that make people can't help but look at it a few times are the hands of Japanese contemporary artist Ito Hirotoshi
Hirostoshi itoh, also known as "jiyuseki", was a Japanese stone sculptor known for his humorous imagination and incredible ability to make hard, cold stones look soft, flexible, and light.
In 1982, he graduated from tokyo national fine arts university, where he experimented with transforming cold hard metal into something warm and soft.
After graduating from college, he returned to his family's stone industry: making tombstones, memorials and religious statues.
However, in his personal time, he has used his imagination to create fascinating non-traditional works of art.
In his personal works, he uses various stones found on the banks of a river near his home (Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan). Using traditional stone masonry equipment such as chisels and saws, he transformed rock, granite, and marble into clothing, coin purses, bread, smiley faces, and other surrealist objects. When he carved, ITOCHU preserved and optimized the original shape of the stone, and further optimized it by juxtaposing the stone with unrelated objects such as dentures, fibers, shells, and various metal objects.
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When he carved, ITOCHU preserved and optimized the original shape of the stone, and further optimized it by juxtaposing the stone with unrelated objects such as dentures, fibers, shells, and various metal objects.
The stone is unremarkable, but for Hirotoshi Ito, it is the perfect canvas. In his opinion, these tiny stones have great potential to convey warmth and humor to others.
Ito's works can be roughly divided into two types. One is a three-dimensional sculpture carved from marble or granite, and Ito changed the natural surface of the stone to look like something else.
The other category is made of stones from beaches and rivers, and Hiroko Ito uses the natural form of these stones to modify and add to them so that they have different characteristics.
Both types of artworks involve ordinary images, objects, and experiences in everyday life.
A distinctive feature of Ito's two arts is his attempt to create the illusion that stone is not just stone, or a completely different substance.
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