About

Kugimachi has consistently confronted landscapes and made them into works of art. About 10 years ago in winter, the artist encountered a landscape around the Swiss-Italian border. It was not just a landscape of snowy mountains, but a world of chaos that could be described as pre-human or post-human, and shook the artist's soul as a primordial chaotic landscape before the emergence of light and darkness in the world, or the dualism of heaven and earth. For Kugimachi, landscapes are a 'place' for reaffirming the position of human beings and a 'device for questioning the …