The sculptor and artist Kenjirô Azuma (*1926) has produced a book with the title ‹La Forma del Vuoto›, translated to English ‹The Form of the Void›. The phrase has its origins in the heart sutra, one of the central scriptures of Buddhism. The artists, who lives in Italy since the 1950s, engages by his most recent work with his Asian background: Buddhism plays an important part in thinking and feeling of the Japanese people. The character meaning ‹nothingness›, pronounced ‹mu›, appears recurrently in the book. Buddhist thinking values the nothingness - or void - highly, especially in creative processes. The work is exhibited in Choisi - one at a time, where only one piece of art is shown at once. The book's reduced concept fits there well.
Art book by Kenjirô Azuma
