IKEBANA and his student are cultivated an unconventional approach to arranging flowers – huge

“I want to explode the beautiful Ikebana idea,” he says. Kosen OhtsuboOne of the concerted artists working in Japanese traditions.

Since the 1970s, Ohtsubo has been bothering the old art of arranging flowers. When combining unconventional plants such as cabbage leaves or fabric into unconventional materials such as bathing ponds and scrap minerals, the artist approaches jazz music mentality, a type that he listens a lot during work. Improvisation and experimentation in its essence, along with the unlawful desire to what is unexpected.

Exhibition Kunstverin München In the pairs of Munich Ohtsubo with Christian Kōun Alborz Oldham, who, after discovering the work of the icon icon in a book in 2013, asked him. Entitled Planet-any References This is suspended outside the home of Tokorozawa from Ohtsubo – The exhibition displays many sculptures and installations that call on viewers to consider the fragility of decomposition, and the characteristics of beauty and control.

Looking at the fast nature of the material, photography plays an important role in most Ikebana practices because it maintains an arrangement for a long time after fluctuating. Therefore, this exhibition shaves on pictures of previous works with new commissions, including the prominent celestial body of OHTSUBO entitled “Linga München”. Interfering in a bed of soil and leaves, widespread sculptures wrap with metal structures and put a small candle in its center.

Likewise, “Willow Rain”, which hangs the delicate branches of the ceiling. The sabotage of the way we usually face growth fields, work is one of the many in the exhibition that the seeds ask about our relationship with the natural world and the limits of human control.

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