WORK
Soami Project, Monochrome —Omachi
Ian Kiaer（UK）
In a sheltered forest next to the national treasure of Nishina Shinmeigu, Kiaer develops a work that evokes suibokuga . 18m high paintings are hung between trees, where viewers walk and experience ever-changing views. The suibokuga method of the 16th century, inspired by the painter Soami, merges monochrome ink and paper with the stillness of the forest, changing light, and the view of the Northern Alps, blurring the border between painting and nature.
Ian Kiaer（UK）
Born in 1971 in London, Kiaer is indebted to the history of painting andarchitecture with a concern for repurposing: the waste, recovery and reconstitution of meaning. Kiaer often uses found and fragile materials to explore the latent legacies of lost ideas and the often unseen relationship between material things.