Isamu Noguchi

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Sculptor, designer, set designer, architect, landscape architect... Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was a complete artist, intimately linking his art to his life. Between the United States and Japan - his two homelands - between abstraction and figuration, between tradition and modernity, he tirelessly created without ever worrying about borders. A leading artist on the post-war international scene, he is also known for his Akari lamps, a luminous reinvention of the Japanese lantern. And while his sculptural works now form part of the collections of some of the world's greatest museums, they also occupy public spaces in towns and cities, where they become playgrounds for meditation or contemplation - or, at any rate, a way of life for as many people as possible.