Zon Sakai＋TIAR
ATAMI ART VILLAGE 
ATAMI ART VILLAGE 
Heavy Duty
Reaching old age,
We, the baby boomers, are approaching an explosion point.
Bewildered by the youth we’ve lost,
We fear getting yet older and older.
My artwork explores the role of entropic air within
Rubber as it continuously transforms in response to
Internal pressures in the same way that
Our expressions are manipulated by our interior emotions.
Born in Fukuoka in 1948, graduated from Nihon University in 1971. Sakai started his artistic activities while working as a typical businessperson from the boomer generation. Since 1996, Sakai began exhibiting his large-sized rubber-tube sculpture at museums and galleries. In 1999, Sakai started Heavy Duty street performance domestically and internationally while wearing his rubber-tube sculpture. In 2020, Sakai joined Tanushimaru Institute for Art Research (TIAR).
