Minoru Kano Bronze sculpture, 1962 Kanō Minoru (1930 - 2007) was a 20th-century Japanese sculptor. After studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he came to Paris in 1957 where he worked at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1965, he participated in the Paris Biennale and in 1967 in the Tokyo Biennale, as well as in the major Parisian salons. Having been influenced by classical art and Romanesque sculpture (it is said that he came to Paris to sculpt a replica of Gislebertus' Eve of Autun), he turned to abstraction in the 1960s. After working with plaster, bronze, and stone, he preferred wood, metals, and especially synthetic resins, which allowed for more flexible and meticulous modeling. Created by compressing a mass of material, his volumes are very dense, as if animated by an internal force
