| Shigeko Hirakawa Nature 4 - Appropriation |
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Wedged 2000 250cm high wood Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke Cachan and Paris |
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Wedged Wood 2000 220 - 250cm high salvaged wood, oak tree, sipo beeswax Immersed Roots 1999-2000 (on the wall) flame: 40 x 50cm roots, beeswax, partial view of th solo show in 2000 Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke, Cachan city, France |
| In December 1999, violent storms raged throughout
France and we saw thousands of trees knocked down by the sheer force of
the winds. Immediate action was taken to clean up the mess, evaluate
the cost of the wood lost and put in place a reforesting scheme which
will last for several years to come. Whether for ecological or
economical reasons, it is obviously for the benefit of man that we take
such care with nature. While unable to master it, we build around us a
nature which is more or less submissive to the human order. Finally,
man and nature stand side by side under the control of society. Man
sees himself by looking at artificial nature; he acts on himself as on
nature; he constructs himself in the unique goal of serving society. In this exhibition, I'd like to talk about this subject in gathering pieces of the nature, like tree-trunks. In the room, they are straightened up again after the storms, though they are cut from their roots by a plateau, without neither branches nor leaves. They are just put up, like human beings adapted to the society. (From the text by Shigeko Hirakawa of May 28 2000, on the occasion of her solo show at the Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke in Paris and Cachan city in France) |
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| Racine 2001 205cm high root, wood exhibited in Maison des Arts de Malakoff 2001 |
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| Racine 2001 170cm high x 80 x 120cm roots, wood, pine tree, oak Maison des Arts de Malakoff 2001 |
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Shigeko
Hirakawa photos: Shigeko Hirakawa |