8 MITSUTA Haruo
1980 Born in Tottori Prefecture.
Articulated figurines metal figurines have animals as their theme. In addition to being highly realistic, they are distinctive in that their parts can be moved freely, just like actual animals’ bodies. Mitsuta Haruo is the leading articulated figurine artist carrying on that extremely rare technique today.
His usual process would be to follow sketching by measuring and dissecting the creature he has chosen, but Pokémon live on a different world from our reality. "However, I can ponder them there.” In this exhibition, he created “Gyarados, as an articulated figurine, as a Mitsuta dragon.” The whiskers were a problem, but he concluded that it wouldn’t have been cool to have them dangling down from a moveable joint. “Actually, in the past, dragons’ whiskers did not move.” Through his creative process, past and present, Mitsuta’s point of view, overlapped.
Articulated figurines metal figurines have animals as their theme. In addition to being highly realistic, they are distinctive in that their parts can be moved freely, just like actual animals’ bodies. Mitsuta Haruo is the leading articulated figurine artist carrying on that extremely rare technique today.
His usual process would be to follow sketching by measuring and dissecting the creature he has chosen, but Pokémon live on a different world from our reality. "However, I can ponder them there.” In this exhibition, he created “Gyarados, as an articulated figurine, as a Mitsuta dragon.” The whiskers were a problem, but he concluded that it wouldn’t have been cool to have them dangling down from a moveable joint. “Actually, in the past, dragons’ whiskers did not move.” Through his creative process, past and present, Mitsuta’s point of view, overlapped.