Isamu Noguchi This Earth, This Passage

Noguchi’s legacy exists in the hybrid material culture he created to communicate how he thought about activating what it means to be human. His faith in our ability to connect beyond our collective doubts about our place in the order of things is present throughout the seven decades Noguchi worked as a sculptor.

Working across a wide range of disciplines, the bi-racial, multicultural American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–88) developed a uniquely open-ended, ecumenical, forward-looking perspective on global culture. Extending his understanding of the body as a conduit for experience, ‘This Earth, This Passage’ brings together work from the 1920s to the 1980s in varied materials: bronze, hot-dipped galvanized steel, basalt and granite. The diversity of materials attests to the interdisciplinary nature of the artist’s practice, informed by his itinerant travels and belief that art is in a ‘constant process of becoming’.