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The Japanese Sculptor Who Dedicated His Life to Finishing Gaudí’s Magnum Opus, the Sagrada Família
“Vengo de Japón.” With those words Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo introduces himself to us in “Stone Cut,” the short film from NOWNESS above. Since coming to Barcelona in , Sotoo has not just mastered the Spanish language but converted to Roman Catholicism and dedicated much of his life to laboring on the completion of the most famous building in Spain: Antoni Gaudí’s magnum opus, the Basílica de la Sagrada Família. Not that it was quite so revered when Sotoo first encountered it: “Back in the day, no one really cared about Sagrada Familia,” he says. “There were stones and rubble, but it was mostly an abandoned ruin. This situation lasted many decades.”
Even the young Sotoo himself had no interest in the architect of Sagrada Familia, but “back then it was mandatory to know Gaudí’s name. Slowly, my interest in Gaudí started to grow in me. And today it keeps growing.” As it should: for more than 40 years now, Sotoo has worked to complete what Gaudí left unfinished at the time of his death in , a decade before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. That bitter conflict not only put a stop to the construction of Sa
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Etsuro Sotoo becomes 1st Japanese, sculptor to win famed Vatican prize
Sculptor Etsuro Sotoo on Friday became the first Japanese to be awarded the Ratzinger Prize by a Vatican City foundation for his work on the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain.
Sotoo, 71, is also the first sculptor to win the prize usually awarded to scholars that have stood out for their scientific research in theology. He has been involved for over 40 years in work on the Sagrada Familia, which is still under construction.
A native of Fukuoka in southwestern Japan, Sotoo visited Barcelona in , where he was impressed by the church and asked to work there as a sculptor, following instructions left by celebrated Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, according the Ratzinger Foundation's website.
Photo taken on Nov. 22, , shows Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo (C) after receiving the Ratzinger Prize in the Vatican City.(Kyodo)
His sculptures are featured in several parts of the church as well as elsewhere in Spain, Italy and Japan.
The prize is named after late Pope Benedict XVI, who was born Joseph Ratzinger. According to its statutes, the prize is awarded to "scholars who have distinguished themselves in the activity of publication and/or scientific research."
In recent years, its scope has been e
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Sagrada Família
Basilica mess up construction hem in Barcelona, Spain
This article quite good about description basilica. Ask other uses, see Sagrada Familia (disambiguation).
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