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Tadashi Kawamata

<p>Tadashi Kawamata’s large panels depict vast panoramas of destruction caused by the collision of human and natural agents. Here we witness not only the persistence of the landscape but also the transitory elements such as the winds, earthquakes, and turbulent waters. At the same time, these abstract landscapes of ruins evoke the consumed experiences of our sedimentary ancestors – the accumulation that collective identity represents. They can also be seen as environments immersed in chaos – the consequence of unforeseen catastrophes that extinguish entire civilizations in seconds – reminding us of the desolate bombed-out cities of wars recent and past. These panels reveal the permanent tension between the powerful force of the landscape and our both vulnerable and destructive civilization. Kawamata suggests that the human need for permanence – in spite of these forces of nature – has ecologically fatal consequences, and that architecture is the most durable agent in the pollution of landscape.</p><p><strong>Tadashi Kawamata</strong> (born 1953 in Hokkaido, Japan) is famous for his in-situ interventions, made by assembling planks of wood, chairs, and barrels, which he uses to create architectural structures that put forth the hidden ideologies of public spaces. Kawamata lives and works in Paris.</p>

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Mennour, Annely Juda Fine Art

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