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Title
Relation-Lead Greenhouse/ Dandelions in Hiroshima
Artist
KAWAGUCHI Tatsuo
Year
1995
Material
Lead, aluminium, glass, dandelion, planted wood

Work Description

Kawaguchi is an internationally active artist, working with materials such as metal, stone, and seeds to create numerous works that question the relationship between the visible and the invisible. After the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in 1986, he began to use lead, which has radiation-shielding properties, in his art. In this work a greenhouse is covered with lead, and lead plates embedded with dandelions from Hiroshima 50 years after the bombing line the room. In evidently freezing the vitality of life and isolating it in a different temporal framework, the artist’s intent was to frame the “relation to the bombing of Hiroshima” as an issue that will endure into the future.

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