Open year-round Hakone Open-Air Art Museum is located in Ninotaira, Hakone-Town, Kanagawa Prefecture of Japan. The mandatory place of pilgrimage for every Japanese – the village of Hakone. Called “Japanese miracle” Open-Air Modern Art Museum appeared at the foot of beautiful Mount Fuji 45 years ago, in 1969. From the beginning, the park was conceived as a mixture of many different cultures and eras, from ancient art to modern Japanese sculpture. Once the eldest daughter of Pablo Picasso chose a small Japanese village, she donated it a large collection of works by her famous father.
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Russian sculptor Dmitry Kravtsov is the creator of these fantasy mini sculptures. He was born 22 October 1969 in Petrozavodsk, Russia. His artistic career as a sculptor began in 1990 after graduation from the Institute of Architecture in Odessa. Dmitry Kravtsov lives and works in Sevastopol, sea port city of the Crimea. The first solo exhibition by Russian artist Dmitry Kravtsov was held in Moscow in 1995, in the gallery “NW”. Some of the author’s works were exhibited in Germany in the period from 1997 to 1999. At present the Dmitry Kravtsov’s works are in many private collections all over the world – in Canada, Russia, England, France, Germany, etc.
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French self-taught sculptor Pierre Matter was born April 4, 1964 in Haut-Rhin, in the valley of Munster. After a rather mystical childhood, he, without conviction, left his studies in math for artistic creation. He tried his hand at gouache, watercolor, was involved in drawing comics and bas-reliefs in stone. He finally found his artistic way in sculpture that has always been his main passion. Pierre Matter has been creating stunning sculptures for more than ten years. His art studio is actually his garage, where he using copper, aluminum, bronze, rubber and everything that comes to hand creates his scrap metal artworks. Steampunk Sculpture by Pierre Matter combines nature and products of industrial world. Some of his sculptures weigh more than six tons.
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