关根伸夫，1942年出生于日本埼玉县，1968年于多摩美术大学油画系习得美术学位，师从极具影响力的抽象雕塑家齐藤义重，以及超现实主义和极简主义艺术家高松次郎。毕业后以物派的代表人物，活跃于国际间的艺术展览。物派，是日本战后现代艺术的象征性团体，而关根伸夫于1968年创作的「位相—大地」，被广泛认为是物派运动的起源，也是当时最具代表性的日本艺术创作之一，对亚洲地区日后的大地、装置、极简艺术发展有显著深远的影响。 关根伸夫作品曾展于日本、美国、英国、法国、日本、韩国、意大利等地。作品受东京原美术馆、丰田市美术馆、川越市立美术馆、大阪国立国际美术馆、韩国果川市国立现代美术馆、丹麦路易斯安那现代艺术博物馆、荷兰克勒勒—米勒博物馆、挪威海尼昂斯塔艺术中心（Henie Onstad Kunstsenter）等机构收藏。 Nobuo Sekine was born in 1942 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. In 1968, he obtained a degree in Fine Arts from Tama Art University, where he studied under influential abstract sculptor Yoshishige Saito, as well as surrealist and minimalist artist Jiro Takamatsu. After graduating, he became a prominent figure in the Mono-ha movement, actively participating in international art exhibitions. Mono-ha, symbolic of post-war modern art in Japan, and Sekine's 1968 work "Phase-Mother Earth," is widely regarded as the origin of the Mono-ha movement and one of the most representative Japanese artworks of the time. It has had a significant and lasting influence on the development of Land Art, Installation Art, and Minimalism in Asia. Nobuo Sekine's works have been exhibited in various countries including Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, South Korea, and Italy. His works are held in collections at institutions such as the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, the Kawagoe City Art Museum, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (Gwacheon), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands, and the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway.