The early paintings of Tetsuo Mizu were monotone. From the 1980s to the 1990s, while he was living in Italy, France, and Spain for a long time, he created stained-glass works and installed them at the Church of St.Anna in Lavinio, Rome. And he held a solo exhibition at the Christian Dior Salon and at the Maritime Museum of Chaillyau in Paris during then. In addition, he was invited to competitions in various places in Europe, and has been highly acclaimed for his success in the European art scene. The “Flag Series” paintings which combine the international signal flags used in ships, and make them meaningful, were well-known worldwide and are still very popular today.<\/p>\n","solo_history":"
1944\u3000born in Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n
1967\u3000encountered the works of Modigliani and decided Modigliani as his lifelong master<\/p>\n
1971\u3000started drawing and studying at Musashino Art Academy.<\/p>\n
1975\u3000accepted for the Exhibition of the Free Art Association and became a member<\/p>\n
1983\u3000prized the award of the Free Art Contest<\/p>\n
\u3000\u3000\u3000 *started to work and stay in Italy three times in a year since 1983<\/p>\n
1986\u3000visited the Picasso\u2019 room in Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland and re-confirmed painting itself<\/p>\n
1987\u3000was invited to the First Representational Art Concours in Anzio near Rome<\/p>\n
\u3000\u3000\u3000 created stained-glass works and installed them at the Church of St. Anna in Lavinio, Rome<\/p>\n
1989\u3000stayed in Palma, Majorca, Spain<\/p>\n
1992\u3000started to stay in Paris (till 1996)<\/p>\n
1993\u3000created works at the church in Saint-Jean-d\u2019Ang\u00e9ly in Paris, France<\/p>\n
1995\u3000started to illustrate the cover picture of monthly magazine \u201cSYOSETSU SUBARU\u201d (by Shueisha)<\/p>\n
1996\u3000created and installed the front porcelain panel painting at the entrance-hall of<\/p>\n
\u3000\u3000\u3000 Nagano Olympic Ice Rink<\/p>\n
1997\u3000started to stay in Beaune, France<\/p>\n
2000\u3000started to stay in Istanbul, Turkey<\/p>\n
had more solo exhibitions in Tokyo, Shizuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka,<\/p>\n
Basel (Switzerland), The Hague (Netherlands), Anzio (Italy) and many other places.<\/p>\n","group_history":"","award_history":"","alpha_link_artist_id":"13311","artist_sort_order":"6"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists\/12890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artists"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artfair.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}