A visionary Japanese-American artist

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a visionary Japanese-American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spanned sculpture, furniture, lighting, and landscape architecture over six decades. Born in Los Angeles to Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and American writer Leonie Gilmour, he studied at Columbia University before apprenticing under Constantin Brâncuşi in Paris, where he honed a biomorphic style merging organic forms with modernist abstraction.

Noguchi’s iconic contributions include the curvaceous Noguchi table for Herman Miller- still produced today-the luminous Akari paper lanterns, and public works like New York’s Red Cube, Seattle’s Black Sun, and Sapporo’s Moerenuma Park. Collaborating with Martha Graham on dance sets and earning honors like the National Medal of Arts, his legacy endures at the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York.
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Source: Barbican Centre
Link: https://youtu.be/IbcleKnGEMU
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