Koji Kamoji

Koji Kamoji (Japanese鸭 治 晃 二, Kamoji Koji, * 1935 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a company based in Warsaw, Poland Japanese painter.

Life

His family was connected with Polish culture for many years. His mother, Riotsu Umeda and his uncle Kudo 's older brother translated many works of Polish literature. Koji Kamoji studied painting at the Tokyo School of Art in Musashino Saburō Asō (麻 生 三郎) and Takeo Yamaguchi (山口 长 男). After graduating in 1958, under the influence of free death of his friend S. Sasaki Koji Kamoji decided to leave Japan forever. In 1959 he came to Poland and began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Professor Artur Nacht-Samborski. After graduating in 1966, he remained in Warsaw as a freelance artist. It is connected with the Warsaw Foksal Gallery of Modern Art.

He was awarded the 1975 Art Critics' Award " CKNorwid ".

Despite the decades of stay in Poland are in his works the characteristics of Japanese art - conciseness and simplicity of a haiku - noticeable.

He said in 1967: "It 's not about the creation of something new, but to recovery and perpetuation of the things we forget, a world of which we are moving away. I want to find a way to regain their presence. "