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In these melancholic, yet fairy tale-like islands and mountainscapes Leiko Ikemura balances and redefines the boundaries between Western and Oriental art, between ancient and modern forms of expression.

Reminiscing the Japanese landscapes of her childhood and the Alps from her time in Switzerland Ikemura depicts vast, luminous sceneries of ocean and mountains. The motives arise from a fusion of autobiography, memory and imagination, and as the artist engages in a play with illuminated horizontal lines, sculptural formations and transcendent forms begin to take shape.

An enigmatic, narrative …