Susumu Shingu (1937) creates sculptures that move by the power of wind. Although originally trained as a painter, Shingu became interested in sculpture when he saw one of his shaped canvases turning softly in the wind. The work that followed relied on natural forces to make movement and sound, and he began using more sophisticated materials for outdoor works. His work walks the fine line between complementing nature and existing as a natural integration. The pieces, though large, colorful, and usually made of modern materials, adopt nature's rhythms in their movement.
Comissions and Public Collections:
1970 Path of the Wind (Senrikita Park, Osaka, Japan)
1975 Message from across the Ocean (JR Kobe Station Plaza, Japan)
1977 Zasso Forest School (Kyotanabe-shi, Kyoto)
1978 Neverending Dialog (Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan)
1979 Distant Rhythm (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan)
1981 Time Traveler (Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan)
Astral Portrait (Flower Road, Kobe, Japan)
1985 Sky Image (Cultural Center of Suita, Osaka, Japan)
Gift of the Wind (Porter Square MBTA Station, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
1988 Rainbow Tree, Time Prism (Fukada Park, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan)
Sky Beat (Yomiuri Television, Osaka, Japan)
Wings' Breath (Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea)
1989 Wind Musical Notes (Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan)
1990 Meadow of Clouds (Sapporo Sculpture Garden, Japan)
1991 Wings of the Waves (Ikuchi Island, Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan)
White Constellation (Nunobiki Park, Kobe, Japan)
1992 Rowing across the Milky Way (Murasaki River, Kitakyushu, Japan)
Wind Kaleidoscope (Brain Center Inc., Osaka, Japan)
Columbus's Wind (Port of Genoa, Italy)
Water Tree, Astral Statue (Aono Dam Park, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan)
1994 Boundless Sky (Kansai International Airport, Japan)
Memory of the Waves (Tempozan, Osaka, Japan)
1995 Locus of Rain (Lingotto, Turin, Italy)
Dialog with the Sun (Queens Criminal Court, New York)
1997 Poem of the Earth (JR Shinsanda Station Plaza, Hyogo, Japan)
Portrait of the Sun (Nishiumeda Park, Osaka, Japan)
Reflection of Rainbow (Itaú Bank, São Paulo, Brazil)
Ocean of Light (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan)
1998 Duet of Water (Montecatini Terme, Italy)
Dialogue with Clouds (Centro Commerciale Meridiana, Lecco, Italy)
Astral Traveler (Seiwa Corporation, Osaka, Japan)
1999 Resonance of Life (Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan)
Luminous Wind (Kobe Design University, Kobe, Japan)
Water Flower (Banca Popolare Italiana, Lodi, Italy)
2000 Memory of Landscape (Nanakita Park, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan)
Wind Travelers (East Port Park, Boston, U.S.A.)
2001 Hommage au Cosmos (Maison Hermès, Ginza, Tokyo)
2003 Silhouette of Time (Tokiwa Park, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan)
2004 Birth of Rainbow (Nankang Software Park, Taipei, Taiwan)
2005 Symphony of the Sea, Wind Navigator
(Happy Village, Marina di Camerota, Italy)
Greetings of the Sun (Pinnacle Land, Asan, Korea)
Wings of the Earth (Château d’Arsac, Margaux, France)
2006 Tree of the Sun (Château d’Arsac, Margaux, France)
2007 Silent Conversation (National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan)
Water Beat (Banca Popolare di Milano, Legnano, Italy)
2008 Echo of Light (Hekinan City Tatsukichi Fujii Museum, Aichi, Japan)
2011 Forest of Light (The Central Library, Fukuoka University, Japan)
Horizon (Tanimatsuya Toda gallery, Osaka, Japan)
2012 Forest of the Wind (JR Yoshikawa-minami Station Plaza, Saitama, Japan)
Distant Sky (Mercedes House, New York, N.Y.)
2015 Wind Tree (View Point of Udatsuyama Park, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan)
Wind Planet (JUT Headquarter, Taipei, Taiwan)
2016 Water Planet (Mitsukan Museum, Handa, Aichi, Japan)
Cosmos, Epic, Myth (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Greece)
2017 Astral Dialogue ( Sanda City Hall, Sanda, Hyogo, Japan)
2018 Wings of Poetry ( University of Kochi, Kochi, Japan)
2021 Infinite Journey (Foyer, Luxembourg)
2021 Rainbow Leaves (565 Broome SoHo, New York)
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Forms and Formations: Design Miami 2023
2023年12月5日 - 12月12日Booth G35 Ippodo Gallery presents Forms and Formations, featuring great names ...Read more -
Susumu Shingu: Sculpting with Wind
2022年10月20日 - 12月29日Ippodo Gallery is pleased to announce that it will host the first solo exhibition in New York city for renowned kinetic ...Read more
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Design Miami 2023
Forms and Formations 2023年12月5日 - 12月12日Booth G35 Ippodo Gallery presents Forms and Formations, featuring great names in contemporary Japanese fine art at Design Miami 2023 from December 5 to December...Read more -
Opening Reception - October 20, 5-8PM
Susumu Shingu: Sculpting with Wind 2022年10月20日Ippodo Gallery will commemorate this exceptional showcase of drawings, interior sculptures, and colorful abstract paintings with an opening reception featuring the artist, who is visiting...Read more
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Design Miami/ 2023 Recap
2024年2月19日Ippodo Gallery’s presence at Design Miami/ for a second year is met with rave reviews. We are so grateful for the enthusiastic responses of our...Read more -
Susumu Shingu x Renzo Piano "Parallel Lives" at Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka. Closing September 15, 2023.
2023年9月6日The collaboratives lives and extensive projects of Ippodo Gallery sculptural artist Susumu Shingu and Italian architect Renzo Piano are showcased in a special exhibition at...Read more -
Year in Review
Reflecting on the Exhibitions of 2022 2023年1月4日Yukiya Izumita, “Stream of Time” 2022 began with Yukiya Izumita’s “Layers of Time,” an impressive showing of the artist’s newest works. The ceramicist began...Read more -
Artist Retrospective: Susumu Shingu
Sculpting with Wind 2022年11月9日For fifty-six years, the abstract painter turned sculptural engineer Susumu Shingu has reminded audiences that we are part of one world, a shared ecosystem. Though...Read more -
Kinetic Sculptor: Susumu Shingu
Essay by Ippodo Gallery Director Shoko Aono 2022年10月19日In October 2021 I visited the installation of Susumu Shingu’s new work, “Gift of Wind,” at 565 Broome Street—designed by Renzo Piano—in SOHO, New York...Read more