The Department of Sculpture, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music has held three biennial exhibitions at Chinretsukan Gallery of The University Art Museum since 1997 - the exhibition "Transformation of Space : Potential of Sculpture(1997)", "Sculpture: Deconstruction and Construction of Figurative Art(1999)", and "Vertical Time: Past, Present and Future of Sculpture (2001)". This exhibition is the fourth of this series aiming to reconsider the situation of contemporary sculpture. Historical approaches towards the relationship between sculpture and the human body mainly focus on representation of the concrete human figure. However, expressions in modern and contemporary sculpture expand freely t