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The exhibition will include a new 6 meter painting influenced by the disasters of March 11, 2011, as well as several other works which showcase the maturation of her practice since here debut nearly 20 years ago.
Though she has been actively exhibiting at galleries and museums abroad, this will be Takano’s first solo exhibition in Japan in eight years. In addition to paintings, she will also present a ‘forest’ installation, created in collaboration with flower artist Makoto Azuma, which functions as a meditation on the interconnection between humans and plant life.
Message from Aya Takano
Before 3.11, the natural disasters that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011, I had always felt certain that some incredibly wonderful world existed somewhere else, somewhere other than here and now. But now I have come to think that the real paradise is right in front of me, in the fluttering leaves, in the sunlight, and in the wind–not somewhere else. Although I was looking for them elsewhere, just like in Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird, perhaps I was creating my own paradise and hell right here in this place all along.
via en.gallery-kaikaikiki.com