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The Door of Return

By Kan Yasuda
Category: Sculpture

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The egg-shaped form at the top of The Door of Return resembles a seed that has just split open or a mouth that opens to the sky, like a baby’s first cry. Yasuda has left the form deliberately ambiguous, leading the viewer to think about time and space, life and death, the past and the present. When one passes though the door, it seems to ask, “What is the place we are returning to?”

Courtesy of The Gateway Foundation.

Dimensions: 78.75″ x 27.5″ x 23.5″
Year Completed: 2001
Material: Bronze
Owner: Gateway Foundation


About the artist:

Kan Yasuda

Artist Bio: b. 1945

Kan Yasuda was born in 1945 in the city of Bibai, on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. Yasuda’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout Italy and Japan. It has also been installed in museums and public spaces around the world, including the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France; the Garachico in Tenerife, Spain; at Aurora Place in Sydney, Australia; and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in West Bretton, the United Kingdom.