Toshimasa KikuchiMathematical Objects\nAuthor(s): Sophie Makariou, Osawa, Sebline, Benzoni-Gavage, Minamoto, Michau, Man Ray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Galerie Mingei, France\nImprint: Galerie Mingei\nISBN-13: 9782956615033, 978-2956615033\nSynopsis\nThe work of the Japanese sculptor Toshimasa Kikuchi (born in 1979) is somehow bewilderingly obvious. Trained in the restoration of Buddhist statues, mastering to perfection the techniques of classical Japanese statuary, he carves pure forms in wood - geometric, hydrodynamic or figurative. His scientific repertory is of all time (mathematics, engineering, natural history), but his preferred materials and techniques are firmly grounded in tradition (Japanese hinoki cypress, urushi lacquer, kinpaku gold leaf). The installation he presents for his Carte Blanche at the musee Guimet in Paris, brings together a series of slender sculptures in lacquered wood of mathematical objects, in the tradition of the celebrated photographs that Ma.