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An ascetic recluse living in the foothills of Chiba who refused to hold exhibitions of his work for nearly 10 years before his representation by Yufuku Gallery in 2014, metal artist Satoru Ozaki (b. 1963 –) is considered one of the ‘lost treasures’ of Japan in light of his mind-bending techniques of hammering and polishing the immobile and adamantine material of stainless steel into beautiful, minimal forms of great depth and presence. Once heralded as the saviour of conceptual metalwork during his time at the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts, the sands of time had slowly buried the artist underneath the limelight. Yet finding a muse in the new aesthetic movement of the Keisho-ha (School of Form) and the artists affiliated with A Lighthouse called Kanata, Ozaki has sprung forth from his hermit-like existence to create never-before-seen sculptures in shimmering steel that are now captivating audiences the world over. With acquisitions by such institutions as the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and most recently the Long Museum in Shanghai, China in 2020, Ozaki’s paeans to stainless steel resonate above and beyond, with each strike of his hammer pouring into metal the poetry of life.