What is Nobuo Sekine?
[[File:Artist Nobuo Sekine facing away from the Pacific Ocean, ca. 2014.tiff|right|200px]] '''Nobuo Sekine''' (関根伸夫, Sekine Nobuo; September 19, 1942 – May 13, 2019), was a Japanese sculptor. He was one of the key members of [[Mono-ha]], a group of artists who became known in the late 1960s and 1970s. He was born in [[Saitama, Japan|Saitama]], [[Japan]]. In October 1968, he created his best known work ''Phase: Mother Earth'' in [[Kobe]]’s Suma Rikyu Park for the ''First Open Air Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition'' (第一回野外彫刻展). Sekine died on May 13, 2019 in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]] at the age of 76.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artasiapacific.com/News/ObituaryNobuoSekine19422019|title=OBITUARY: NOBUO SEKINE (1942–2019)|publisher=ArtasiaPacific|date=May 15, 2019}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sekine, Nobuo}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Japanese artists]] [[Category:Sculptors]] {{bio-stub}}