Expressions on society and culture
Veteran artist Seiko Kawachi continues to question both his own identity and that of the world in which he lives in new exhibition “Cosmic View” showing at Ardel’s Third Place Gallery on Thonglor Soi 10 from July 4 to August 5
The works range from “Majestic II” created in 1994 to “Poem of Universe” (“Ki-sho-ten-ketsu”), which draws its inspiration from the existence of a gigantic galaxy in which the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago.
“I began my print expressions in the woodblock medium from about 1969. Since then, I have been producing my artworks while asking myself who I am and what is the society in which I live. I have continued to search for the best way to express society today. And my biggest theme is to think about the existence of human beings in modern society,” Seiko says.
“I believe that culture is born out of the customs which came from each country’s natural and social environments. I think that these works well represent the Japanese culture and I hope you will appreciate our culture through this exhibition. Buddhism thoughts and philosophy in the Orient have great influence on human culture and I’m thinking about myself based on the way of the Buddha”.
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