Since Hikaru Yumura awarded Excellent Artist Prize at The 5th Yasudakasai Art Fundation Encouragement Award Exhibition in 1986, There are many opportunities to see comparatively as the museum collection or the public collection. Stoic and placid form without gorgeous color or decoration provides calm peacefulness for the people with natural harmony.

Yumura's work was made with granite which combined skillfully with a polished surface and a section. This contrast reminds us the rivalry of "knowledge and emotion" or "Yin and Yang". The uneven crack surface defuses an overbearing stone sculpture. It impresses humor, even when it is huge sculpture.

His works have consistency and own criterion as his words "I would like to confront and communicate with genuine stones to express their dignified space." When you see the work after reading the title, you will be made to realize the form was made after mature consideration.

He exhibits his collage works for the first time. The form torn by hand was placed on layered colored papers by his exquisite color sense which can not see in stone sculpture. As he said "Breaking a stone and tearing paper are based on a homogeneous concept.", you will also sympathize with the collage work. Although Matisse used only scissors to make cutout in his later years, Yumura uses a cutter to express a section like julienne. This can be said to have succeeded in enjoying the essence, which was cultivated in long career of sculpture, easily.

The work is good to hang on a wall. When you see it, a comfortable breeze blows, the wind spreads to the blue sky. You will feel yourself who connected with nature.

Suguru Igarashi / Curator of Sompo Japan Museum of Art