Sculptor Keita Miyazaki’s Mechanical Flower Power
The artist uses metal car parts and paper flowers in his artwork to denounce all human-induced global crises.
© Keita Miyazaki
A graduate of the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Royal College of Art in London, Keita Miyazaki thrives on antagonism. The sculptor’s works marry the robustness of metal with the fragility of paper, opposing mechanic with organic, order with fantasy.
Industrial progress vs Vegetation
Miyazaki assembles car parts (the car representing capitalism, industrial progress, and mass production) and multicoloured paper flowers (symbolising vegetation, renewal, and the inevitability of life).
In a harmony of seemingly incompatible elements that have already been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Venice Biennale, Keita Miyazaki questions and intrigues. The artist, who considers his work to be post-apocalyptic, seeks to denounce all human-induced global crises, be they nuclear or banking related.
Keita Miyazaki’s works can be seen on his website.
© Keita Miyazaki
© Keita Miyazaki
© Keita Miyazaki
© Keita Miyazaki
© Keita Miyazaki
© Keita Miyazaki
© Keita Miyazaki
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