High art and high fashion collide at the windows of Hermès as the fashion house proudly displays Resonance of Nature by Takashi Kuribayashi. The renowned artist’s visual exhibit will be on display until March 2017 at the Hermès store at 541 Orchard Rd., Liat Towers, Siangapore.
( Takashi Kuribayashi)
Through Resonance of Nature, Takashi expresses the boundary that lies between Man and Nature through two contrasting worlds within the Hermès window space. As the great artist says, “the truth resides in places that are invisible. Once you are aware that there is a different world out of sight, you will be living in a different way.”
Using both the horizontal and vertical axis, the artist presents the opposition caused by borderlines, as well as a four-dimensional universe that exists at the boundaries. The Hermès product, with its own unique resonance of the poetic dialogue between nature and man, acts as a token that brings together the two worlds with grace and peace.
Born in Nagasaki, Japan, Takashi is currently based in Jogyakarta, Indonesia. He previously exhibited at the former Third Floor — Hermès art space during the inaugural Singapore Biennale 2006. His installations often visualize things that cannot be seen in daily life, such as what lies behind the ceiling, floor or seabed, so that he can reveal this invisible world.
“I believe this world is constructed by opposing contrasts. The oppositions can be divided by borderlines that create boundaries. No matter how they are divided; vertically, horizontally; there lies a space – a four dimensional universe at the boundaries. My window expresses the boundaries and the created space, and what goes on there. The strong memories of the opposite worlds, human and nature are separated by boundaries, but also connected and can relate to each other,” Takashi concludes.
