Public orders
1% for art
In France, the law of 1951 provides that 1% of the state budget is spent on the decoration of public buildings with artwork. The majority of the works of Mizui in France are created under 1% for art. He has been built 26 sculptures between 1968 and 1982(for 14 years).For The first order from French cultural ministry was to create sculpture at Bordeaux University (department of law) in 1968, where he built Jet d’eau pétrifiée (Petrified waterjet). This request was made after his reputation towards Microcosme et Macrocosme at Winter Olympic games in Grenoble. Le Mur qui s’ouvre (Wall that Opens)(cement / 4.5m x 13 x 1.4 / 1972/ located in Lycée Louis Bascan, Rambouillet) is a retaining wall. The artist used molds of expanded polyester material that cut through the electrical resistance, a very specific technique that Mizui has obtained from his engineering background.
The Wall Opens
(cement / 4.5m x 13.0 x 1.4 / December 1972)
Lycée de Rambouillet, France is the first work for which Mizui spoke of “Oscillo-Relief”. He then developed this technique for more than ten years.
When the side seen is in shadow, the second plan visible in the central gap mysteriously lights up.
Publics Order
Mizui and Order in France
Sagesse (Wisdom)
(stone / 4.0m x 2.7 x 0.6 / August 1976) Campus de l’École polytechnique de Palaiseau
Napoleon built an elite school in France to promote national technology. The new modernized facility has moved to a large area west of Versailles.
The idea was a paperweigh for the research paper, expressing the power of clustering through the hands of researchers.
Source de vitalité (Source of vitality)
(stone / 3,0 m x 5,0 x 1,0 / february 1973 / Lycée Louis Bascan de Rambouillet avec Jacques Barge )
It’s a game of cylindrical voids and encrusted stone cylinders in a fragment of a wall.”Cylinder game, machine as non machine. “ Make a heart like a vitality production machine.
Public Order in Japan…
Six Crests
(Indian sandstone/ 7.0m x 2.2 x 2.0; Fountain part: 16.0 x 32.0 / June 1985) Universiade Summer, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture
With the support of water engineers, we used the effects of collisions and twists in large water discharges and large fountains.
Private Order in Japan…
Water Jet
Like the forest ideogram, is formed from the tree sign, repeated 3 times; starting from the water sign and modifying a variant that I can avoid of this letter, I wanted to evoke, in my “water jet” sculpture, the vertical gush of water because it is a sign of my invention.
Bronze puzzle
(220 cm – private residence Tokyo)
The decoration of this vestibule is broad in the metal. The seriousness of the bas-relief is well suited to a luxurious residence.
Assembled heads
(Indian sandstone – 330 cm) – Info-center Ogaki – Japan Brains around the world communicate, too bad hearts don’t follow …
ECHO OF LAUGH
(marble / 2.3m x 1.8 x 1.0 / April 1973) Palm Beach State College (Lannan Sculptures) Florida USA
Dharma was laughing as he rolled down the valley.
Mizui answers the Dharma.
This is the echo you made when you laughed.
Olympic Games – Japan “The Fossil Walls”
(Olympic Games in Japan – 1964)
The walls of the fossils （granite / 2mx 93x 0.3 / 1964 / Yoyogi National Gymnasium) The Yoyogi National Gymnasium is a sports hall located in Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan. He was designed by Kenzō Tange and built between 1961 and 1964. The large relief of Mizui was laid out in inside this building. This abstract relief, which decorates a corridor of 93 m in total length, is composed of 408 pieces of granite blocks of 35cm x 60cm -1.82cm x 30cm. These blocks of granite come from Kitagishima, also called “stone island”, Okayama Prefecture. The weight total reaches over 160 tons. Mizui received a request from Kenzō Tange in October 1963 that he begins to realize from February 1964 until July of the same year with the assistance of ten people in Kitagishima. This carved granite was transported, composed in Tokyo and completed at the end of August, then in September, presented to the foreign press. Its concept expresses, in ten landscapes, the deep involvement in the experience of life and nature. He drew ten images in stone as a memory of fossils; Travel – Flame – Weight – Perfume – Obsession – Water – Wisdom – Sound – Time – Light. As always, the artist has worked all these elements to by hand, cutting the stone with the point, the step, large and small hammers without using machine.
Olympic Games – Grenoble “Micro – Macro”
(Olympic Games in France – Grenoble – 1968) – 2 walls of 40 m
“Macrocosm and Microcosm” (stone / 13mx 81x 0.4 / Olympic Village of Grenoble). Two walls 40 m of Macrocosm and Microcosm where the notions of maximum and minimum of the world. “The maximum” symbolizes the Life of nature beyond the individual, such as the Forest, the Mountain, the Sea, the River, while “the minimum” symbolizes internal conflict specific to human beings. There is reflection on the world of nature and man. At the time of Charles de Gaulle, the Minister of State for Cultural Affairs and great connoisseur of the arts, André Malraux, visited the monument and expressed his admiration to Mizui.
List of Order
In France
Tombeau des corbeaux (Bird Tomb)(bronze / 0.75m x 0.28 x 0.28 / April 1958: First Biennale Paris) Lacoste
Amiral:tête de cheval (Amiral: Horse Head) (bronze / 1.2m x 0.9 x 0.6 / March 1963) Bois de Boulogne, Paris.
Dessin by the iron spatula – 3 pieces（1966、72、74 / Musée départemental de l’Oise Beauvais）
Macrocosme Microcosme (stone / 1.3m x 81.0 x 0.4 / August 1968: Grenoble Olympics game) Village Olympique de Grenoble
Jet d’eau pétrifiée (Fountain Fossiles) (stone / 3.2m x 8.0 x 8.0 / November 1968) University of Bordeaux
Fleur du Midi (Flower of Provence) (stone / 3.0m x 1.0x 1.0 / December 1968) C.E.S deHyères
Cosmos (stone /15.0m x 18.0 x 0.06 / March 1970) Cité Technique de Villefranche-sur-Saône
Une naissance (A Birth) (stone / 1.3m x 36.0 x 0.35 / June 1970) University Institutes of Technology de Paris, Paris
Soleil-Forêt-Fêtes (stone / 1.3m x36.0 x 0.35 / July 1970) Ecole maternelle de Avenue de Versailles, Paris
La mer (The Sea) (stone / 1.3m x 15.0 x 0.35 / September 1970) C.E.S de Châteauroux
Le mistral (stone / 2.5m x 70.0 x 0.4 / October 1970) C.E.S de Gardanne
Le point de rencontre (Meeting Point) (marble and stone /1.0m x 2.0 x 2.0 / March 1971) Ecole maternelle de Avenue de Versailles, Paris
Dialogue (stone / 3.7 m x 2.0 x 0.8 / September 1971) Université de Lorraine – l’UFR Sciences humaines et sociales Metz
Oscillo-tower (stone / 2.0m x 0.6 x 0.6 / July 1972) SCAD Lacoste, Lacoste
Le mur qui s’ouvre (The Wall Opens) (cement / 4.5m x 13.0 x 1.4 / December 1972) Lycée de Rambouillet[48]
Source de vitalité (Source of vitality) (stone / 3.0m x 5.0 x 1.0 / February 1973) Lycée Technique de Rambouillet[48]
La corne d’abondance (Horn of abundance)(stone / 3.0m x 4.0 x 1.0 / June 1973: Mountain and sculpture exposition) Plateau d’Assy, J.P.Lemesle)
Zig et Zag I(Zig and Zag I) (stone/2m x 0.4 x 0.4 / July 1973) Savannah College of Art and Design, Lacoste, France
Le signe de la vie (Sign of Life) (stone / 3.0m x 16.0 x 2.5 / September 1973) Lycée Général et Technologique & Professionnel Charles Augustin Coulomb d’Angoulème
Gardien du soleil (Gardian of the Sun) (stone / 4.0m x 1.0 x 1.0 / November 1973) Groupe Scolaire de Vigneux-sur-seine[48]
Les cimes (Mountain tops) (stone / 3.0m x 6.0 x 0.6 / May 1974) C.E.S d’Oullins, Lyon
Le chant du coq (Rooster’s song) (Polisol / 2.5m x 0.6 x 0.2 / June 1974: Exposition) Chamonix France, J.P Lemesle
Les crêtes (Crests) (stone /2.0 m x 5.5 x 1.5/ November 1974) C.E.D de Montfort-l’Amaury
Zig et Zag IV (stone / 0.8m x 0.25 x 0.25/ December 1974) Lacoste
Voie lactée (Milky way)(Marble / 2.2m x 13.0 x 0.03 / January 1975) Bank of Tokyo in Paris, Reiko Hayama
Les crêtes II (Crests II) (stone /2.0 m x 5.0 x 1.3 / June 1975: Exposition at Middelheim museum, Antwerp, Belgium) Lacoste
Zig et Zag 2 pieces (stone / 1.0m x 0.6 x 0.6 / July 1975) SCAD Lacoste
La porte de germination (Germination door) (stone / 5.0m x 3.0 x 0.8 / October 1975) Lycée Technique de Dombasle
Oscillo-Cascade I (stone / 2.0m x 6.0 x 1.0 / November 1975) SCAD Lacoste
La Sâon (Sâon River) (stone / 2.5m x 25.0 x 0.5 / December 1975) Cité Technique de Villefranche-sur-Saône
Oscillo-arch (stone / 1.5m x 4.0 x 0.4 / July 1976) SCAD Lacoste
Sagesse (Wisdom) (stone / 4.0m x 2.7 x 0.6 / August 1976) Campus de l’École polytechnique de Palaiseau
Coupe-Vent (Windbreaker) (stone / 2.0m x 38.0 x 0.35 / September 1976) Lycée de Châteaubriant, Rennes
Une ronde (A Round) (stone / 3.4m x 5.6 x 2.6 / December 1976) / Cité Technique de Colmar[48]
Fête de Mer (Festival of Sea) (stone / 1.3m x 20.0 x 0.35 / March 1977) C.E.S de Bourbourg
Oscillo-escalier (stone / 2.0m x 6.0 x 2.3 / May 1977) Villeneuve d’Ascq[52]
Oscillo-element (stone / 2.0m x 1.0 x 1.0 / July 1977) SCAD Lacoste
Oscillo-Cascade II (stone / 3.0m x 12.0 x 3.5 / October 1977)/ University of Nancy
Rideau d’eau (Water Curtain) (cement / 3.2m x 11.0 x 0.3 / November 1977) Fontaine de la Place de Quatre saisons, Val-de-Reuil[54]
Fontaine au filet d’eau (Fountain trickle) (cement / 200m2 / February 1978) Lycée-collège Léon-Blum, Villeneuve d’Ascq
Arc du Nuage(Arc the Cloud) (stone / 3.6m x 5.6 x 1.6 / June 1978) Lycée Michel Montaigne de Bordeaux
Gardien du Nuage (Gardian of Cloud) (stone / 2.1m x 1.0 x 0.6 / July 1978)
Fontaine au filet d’eau (Fountain trickle- additional part) (cement / 10.0m x 2.7 x 0.1 / October 1978) Lycée-collège Léon-Blum, Villeneuve d’Ascq
La pierre qui s’enfle (The stone that swells) (stone / 2.0m x 1.0 x 0.4 / July 1979) Lacoste
Diago-complex (diagonal-complex) (stone / 2.0m x 1.0 x 0.4 / July 1980) Lacoste
L’oeuil du Cyclone (Eye of Cyclone) (stone / 2.4m x 3.0 x 0.6 / October 1980) college A.Sisley de L’Île-Saint-Denis
Oscillo-Crêtes (Tilt and Crest) (stone / 2.4m x 7.5 x 1.8 / May 1981) Ecole du Service de Santé des Armés de Bron, Lyon
Camargue (stone / 1.2m x 2.0 x 0.6 / July 1981) Lacoste
Arc familial (Family arch) (stone / 2.5m x 3.6 x 1.1 / May 1982) Lattes, Montpellier
Mèche au ciel (Wick to heaven) (stone / 2.0m x 0.6 x 0.45 / July 1982) Lacoste
Trois fenêtres (Three windows) (stone / 2.0m x 0.9 x 0.9 / July 1983) Lacoste
Une Constellation (A constellation) (stone / 2.0m x 1.1 x 0.6 / July 1984) Lacoste
Bénits (Blessing) (Indian sandstone red and white / 2.0m x 1.0 x 0.95 / April 1985) Lacoste
Fenêtres tournantes (Rotating windows) (Stone / 0.8m x 0.7 x 2.0 / September 1985) Lacoste
Pierre qui rit I (Laughing stone I) (Stone / 1.0m x 1.0 x 2.0 / September 1986) Lacoste
La table cactus (Cactus table) (Stone / 1.1m x 1.0 x 0.7 / July 1988) Lacoste
Mini Palais (mini Palac) (Stone / 1.1m x 1.1 x 0.95 / September 1988) Lacoste
Colonne biaise (Biaced column) (marble / 1.8m x 0.65 x 0.65 / May 1989) Lacoste
Le mur de l’espoir (Wall of Hope – James Dean Monument) (Limestone / 13.0m x 4.5 x 1.2 / August 1989) Lacoste, Vaucluse
Quartette (stone / 3.0m x 0.95 x 0.85 / September 1990) Lacoste
Zig Zag (stone / 2.0m x 0.4 x 0.4/ September 1996) Lacoste
Japan
Cerf-Volant de pierre (Stone Kite) (stone / 2.6m x 1.0 x 0.5 / July 1963) Watanabe Memorial Park, Ube Yamaguchi / 1st Ube biennale）[58]
Michinashi (stone / 2.0m x 1.0 x 0.9 / August 1963) made during 1stInternational Sculpture Symposium held Manazuru, Kanagawa, Japan, which sponsored by Asahi Shimbun,then, displayed in front of Yoyogi National Gymnasium while Tokyo Olympic Games 1964. After the Olympic games, purchased by Church of Perfect Liberty Osaka
Kitagi (stone / 2.3m x 1.0 x 0.5 / July 1964) Kitagi Junior High School, Kitagi-island, Okayama
Les murs des fossils (Walles of Fossiles)(granite / 2.0m x 93.0 x 0.3 / September 1964) Yoyogi 2nd Gymnasium, Shinjyuku, Tokyo, requested by Kenzō Tange for Tokyo Olympic Games (summer)[60]
Colonne de la Saison (Pillar of Season)(granite / 2.25 m / 1964) in the garden of Yoyogi 2nd Gymnasium, Shinjyuku, Tokyo
Group de 6 (Group of six)(granite / 1.2m / 1964) in front of Yoyogi 2nd Gymnasium, Shinjyuku, Tokyo
Borne de Terminus (To Terminal) (stone / 1.0m x 2.0 x 0.4 / March 1969) Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa
Trois outils en pierre nr. 3 (Stone Ware No. 3) (stone / 0.4 m x 0.4 x 0.4 / 1971) National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture
Oscillo-complex (stone / 3.0m x 1.3 x 1.2 / January 1981) The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum, Nagano 2nd concours of Grand Prix of Henry Moore
Hi (Fly) (Heated Rhyolite / 3.0m x 8.0 x 0.25 / November 1981) Azubil learning Center, Shinzaichi, Tokyo
Pazzle-Fonte (Bronze / 2.2m x 2.1 x 0.15 / February 1984) Private House, Tokyo
Mai Couronne (Bronze / 1.0m x 1.1 x 0.5 / October 1984) Sanyo Shokai Co., Ltd., Ichigaya, Tokyo
Méche au Ciel (Wick of heaven) (Bronze / 2.0m x 0.65 x 0.5 / November 1984) Sugino Seiseki, Ogaki, Gifu,(Galerie Nichido contemporal art exhibition and Ayumikai Sculpture exposition in Chiba)
Six Crêtes (Date 6) (Indian sandstone/ 7.0m x 2.2 x 2.0; Fountain part: 16.0 x 32.0 / June 1985) Universiade Summer, Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture
Oscillo-complex II (marble / 2.0m x 0.8 x 0.7 / April 1986) Sapporo Sculpture Park, Hokkaido[65]
Pierre qui rit II (Laughing Stone II) (granite / 2.0 m x 0.65 x 0.6 / June 1987) Keion Temple, Nara
Porte d’éspérance (Gate of Hope) (Indian sandstone and stone / 2.5m x 2.0 x 0.7 / October 1987) Osaka Bioscience Institute, Osaka[66]
Jijun (Submission) (Turkish travertin / 1.2m x 1.1 x 0.5 / June 1988) Gifu Keizai University, Gifu
Colonne Sapin (stone / 3.0m x 0.95 x 0.95 / June 1991) Shibukawa Culture Hall, Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture）
Dix mille bouquins (Ten Thousand Books) (granite / 1.2m x 1.0 x 6.0 / October 1991) Hakata Kinmon Co., Ltd, Fukuoka
La pierre qui m’appelle (Stone is calling) (granite / 3.0m x 0.95 x 0.95 / December 1991) Gifu Keizai University, Gifu
Méche blanche (White Wick) (granite / 3.0m x 0.7 x 0.7 / April 1992) Yamato Isuzu Shatai Kogyo Co., Ltd
Jet d’eau (Water Rising) (Indian sandstone and stone / 6.0m x 1.1 x 1.1 / June 1992) Ogaki Suitopia Center, Ogaki Gifu)
Boules en chaplet I (Balls Rosary I) (Granite / 3.0m x 1.1 x 0.95 / November 1992) Miki Park, Ogaki, Gifu
Boules en chaplet II (Balls Rosary II) (Granite / 3.2m x 1.0 x 1.0 / November 1993) Haseko Corporation Tatsuno Hiranomachi building, Osaka[69]
Gardien (Gardian) (granite / 2.5m x 1.2 x 0.7 / April October 1994) Haseko Corporation Tatsuno Hiranomachi building, Osaka
Récolte (Harvest) (granite/ 1.1m x 0.5 x 0.45 / May October 1996) Kinmon Mizuho Co., Ltd, Kyoto
Dance (granite / 1.2m x 0.4 x 0.4 / October 1996) Tokoname Park, Tokoname, Aichi
Hiraku (Open Air) (granite / 3.0m x 1.2 x 0.7 / November 1997) Ogaki information center, Gifu
Tsudou (Gathering brains and gathering love) (Turkish Travertin / 3.5m x 2.2 x 0.9 / March 1998) Ogaki information center, Gifu
Couple Heureux (Happy Couple) (granite / 3.0m x 2.7 x 1.2 / June 1998) Kinmon production Co., Ltd, Wakayama
In other countries
Clef au ciel (Key to Heaven) (stone/3.8m x 0.8 x 0.85/1960 ) Made in St. Margarethen Germany, then, moved to Zollikon, Zurich, Switzerland.
Borne II (Guide II) (marble / 2.5m x 1.0 x 1.2 / August 1961) Portorož Slovenia
Borne III (Guide III) (Stone /2.5m x 0.8 x 0.9 / September 1961) Kirchheim Germany
Clef d’amour (Key to Love) (stone / 4.0m x 0.9 x 0.6 / May 1962) Berlin Germany
L’ete de Berlin (Summer in Berlin) (stone/1.3 m x 0.6 x 0.6/1963) Berlin Germany
Les germes(Seeds) (stone / 2.0m x 0.7 x 0.7 / 1962) Berlin Germany
Hommage à Néguev (Tribute to Neguev) (marble / 3.7m x 1.7 x 0.6 / October 1962) Mizpe Ramon (Neguev) Israel
L’hiver de Berlin (Winter in Berlin) (stone/1.3 m x 0.6 x 0.6/1963) Berlin Germany
Hommage à Tatra (Tribute to Tatra) (stone /3.5m x 3.0x 0.65 / August 1966) Vyšné Ružbachy, Slovakia
Trois traces (Three Traces) (marble / 2.0m x 3.0 x 0.9 / September 1968) Vermont USA
Babieca (simple minded) (bronze / 2.83m x 1.2 x 1.2 / 1968) Barcelona Spain
Cascade de la lumiére(stone / 4.3m x 0.9 x 1.0 / May 1969) Federsee Oggelshausen Germany International Sculpture Symposium
L’écho du rire (Echo of Laugh) (marble / 2.3m x 1.8 x 1.0 / April 1973)Palm Beach State College(Lannan Sculptures) Florida USA[83]
Fumée blanche (White Flame) (stone / 3.1m x 1.1 x 0.9 / May 1975) Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Caprice de Luberon (marble )Palm Springs International Airport California United States
Video
Documentary
TV Japon Documentary: Yasuo Mizui 1982
“The man who breathes the soul into the stone”
ABU Asia Broadcasting Union
