Oscillo-Tour

The title of the work is “The White Flame.” On the light spectrum visible to humans, white is the color of the hottest fire. Fire that shimmers and causes the surrounding air to vibrate.

The artist created the original design for a sculpture project in the mountains. In doing so, he set out to create a sculpture that could hold its own with Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, in the background. Yasuo Mizui was greatly in awe of nature: “I felt very small in the face of nature’s immensity.”

“The White Flame” carries movement in several ways, even though the stone itself remains dead still. According to the artist, it was also the stone that guided him in creating his work. We can associate this with the Japanese religion of nature, Shintoism, in which nature is animated: a stone can be a spirit of nature.

Japanese sculptor Yasuo Mizui went to Paris in 1953 on a scholarship to study sculpture, and continued to live and work in France. His forms are abstract and geometric, but in terms of content, the Japanese religion of nature, Shintoism, was very important to him.