Leiko Ikemura

Karlsruhe

Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura found her style in the mid-1990s and has never looked back since, depicting nameless figures shrouded in thought, ghostlike beings and unearthly landscapes, in which the line of the horizon acts as the threshold to infinite space. Ikemura’s figures inhabit an elementary world of light and colour, land and sea. Shadowy landscape forms are construed as anthropomorphic shapes, faces and rocks merge into hybrid images of nature.

Ikemura’s art constitutes an attempt to break down our rational constraints and escape the scores of images that surge in on us each day, leaving us to instead trust our intuition. As the artist says: “Eyes are dubious organs that shut themselves off from the world without us noticing…” She thus challenges us to shut our eyes and dive into the images inside us.

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe’s exhibition Leiko Ikemura i-migration features some 140 artworks and places the spotlight on Leiko Ikemura’s more recent work, which has been inspired by contemporary events.

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

March 9 – June 16, 2013
Hans-Thoma-Straße 2-6
76133 Karlsruhe
Germany

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