Kamikaze
We share with you an interview made by Fabio, with the Japanese sculptor
Kengiro Azuma. He tells his thought, his vision of life through sculpture.
At 17 he joined the Navy as a kamikaze pilot, but did not get to make sacrifices for the war. Between 1949 and 1953, he graduated in sculpture at the University of Tokyo.
In 1956 he obtained a scholarship from the Italian government and moved to Italy. He was a teacher at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1980 to 1990 period. Lives and works in Milan.
Azuma was a student of Marino Marini at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, and later he will become his assistant; nowaday Azuma is famous, and his work is a synthesis of art and Zen teachings received by Marini and Fontana. In 1995, he received the prize "Shijuhosho" by the Emperor of Japan.