Etsuro sotoo biography examples
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Art is Life…
Etsuro Sotoo – Japanese architect and sculptor wins the prestigious Premio Michelangelo 2012. Considered the heir to Antoni Gaudi (God’s sculptor, as he is known in Spain) Mr. Sotoo has taken over the work in Barcelona’s Sagrada Famila complex, where his most famous sculptures are located.
This Sunday the 29th of July, 2012, the mayor of Carrara Angelo Zubbani will present the Japanese-born sculptor with the Parchment and Shard of Marble – the Premio Michelangelo 2012. The prize, – presented by the Cave Michelangelo and the Associazione Il Cerchio – has been awarded to Rossella Biscotti, Daniel Spoerri, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Luigi Mainolfi, Dani Karavan, Claudio Parmiggiani in recent years.
Il Premio Michelangelo is produced in conjunction with the Regione Toscana, the Comune di Carrara, the Provincia di Massa Carrara, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Carrara, the Cassa di Risparmio di Carrara Spa and the Au
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The Japanese Sculptor Who Dedicated His Life to Finishing Gaudí’s Magnum Opus, the Sagrada Família
“Vengo dem Japón.” With those words Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo introduces himself to us in “Stone Cut,” the short film from NOWNESS above. Since coming to Barcelona in 1978, Sotoo has not just mastered the Spanish language but converted to Roman Catholicism and dedicated much of his life to laboring on the completion of the most famous building in Spain: Antoni Gaudí’s magnum opus, the Basílica dem la Sagrada Família. Not that it was quite so revered when Sotoo first encountered it: “Back in the day, no one really cared about Sagrada Familia,” he says. “There were stones and rubble, but it was mostly an abandoned ruin. This situation lasted many decades.”
Even the young Sotoo himself had no interest in the architect of Sagrada Familia, but “back then it was mandatory to know Gaudí’s name. Slowly, my interest in Gaudí started
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JAPAN
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
"The Japanese Know
What the Heart Is"
A woman who shared scarce fuel with her neighbor, doctors going around ruined villages, the sacrifice of Fukushima workers, and Emperor Akihito's invitation to pray... The sculptor of the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, ETSURO SOTOO, explains what he saw in his people during these dramatic moments. Not mere fatalism, but ultimately a conviction of the positivity of reality, because only by "obeying nature can we understand much more."
BY CARLO DIGNOLA
Etsuro Sotoo, who has been working for 30 years on the completion of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia Basilica, Antoni Gaudì's masterpiece, is Japanese. We were struck during these weeks by the tragedy that has fallen upon his people, which revealed as surprisingly near and similar men of cultures and feeling that seemed far apart. We were moved by the dramatic nature of the news, and more: watching t