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There are many people live in the land, the land climate is different.

A glimpse of beauty in daily life. Some are hidden beauty of everyday people. Even they are aware of it.
Create unexpected beauty in the land to continue the matter. Produced by a coincidence that beauty is not to say other than no longer necessary. Human land environment, mutual "natural" weave strange landscape.

I walk the city with a colored pencil and paper. Rub it directly to the camera can not be touched by what the camera can not reproduce copy.

1968　Born in Ishikawa Prefecture Kanazawa city
1992　Graduation of Department of Art Studies at Tokyo University of Arts
1995　Tokyo University of Arts graduate school art research course completion

Individual Exhibitions

2007　"Result of Ginza"／INAX gallery ２（Tokyo）
2002　"Shimonoseki・1000・Diary／INAX gallery ２（Tokyo）
1999　"day drawing 1999"／Akiyama art gallery（Tokyo）
1997　"day drawing 1997"／Tanaka art gallery（Tokyo）
1996　"Speculate"／Akiyama art gallery（Tokyo）
1995　"Work on Wall"／Akiyama art gallery（Tokyo）
1992　Gallery Ｑ（Tokyo）
1990　Nagatani gallery（Tokyo）

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009　Niigata Water and Land Art Festival 2009（Niigata）
2009　The 4rd Art festival of the earth・Echigo tsumari art triennale 2009（Niigata）
2007　Osaka Art Kaleidoscope 2007 "I want to meet Daioosaca. "（Osaka）　
2006　The 21st National cultural festival in Yamaguchi 2006・Sculpture exhibition（Yamaguchi）
2006　The 3rd Art festival of the earth・Echigo tsumari art triennale 2006（Niigata）
2004　The 58th Yamaguchi Prefecture art exhibition／Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art（Yamaguchi）
1999　"ONE DAY ONE SHOW"／FREE SPACE 3（Tokyo）

Koichi Sakao

Ishikawa Prefecture Kanazawa city birth in 1968. Artist. Associate Professor of Tokyo University of Technology.
It chiefly copies onto paper with a colored pencil and it acts by the technique of the taken frottage. It participates in the art event in the provinces etc. and the work is progressed as a project in recent years.
A national cultural festival, and it reels and the work is announced in Yamaguchi 2006(The work: shop project) and 2007 the echigo-tsumari art triennale (The work: LIFE works + green room project) to Osaka and the art kaleidoscope (The work: Kitasenba projection chart) as soon as in 2006. The memory of the water of lost Niigata worked in shape by the whole area of Niigata City in the art festival of the water and land art in 2009 through frottage and it worked on "Memory of Water project Niigata 2009".