Noriyuki haraguchi biography of georgetown

Japanese artist (1946–2020)

Noriyuki Haraguchi
Noriyuki Haraguchi installing Oil Pool at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Tehran, 1977
Born	1946 Yokosuka, Japan
Died	2020
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Nihon University, Tokyo
Known for	sculpture, installation art
Notable work	Oil Pool (1971)

Noriyuki Haraguchi (1946-2020) was a Japanese artist who is known as a leading figure of Mono-ha and Post-mono-ha, with a precise attention paid to the materials used (often industrial), their spatial arrangement, the relationship with the exhibition space and the processual reach of the artistic practice.

His first works reference the aesthetics and materials of militarism and heavy industry. From the 1970s onwards, his work turned to issues related to perception and representation by creating complex conversation between raw and manufactured materials exploring notions of modernity, industrialization, and nature in wo