Rikuo Ueda
ウエダ リクオ

Rikuo Ueda builds and manufactures, carpets and designs for an artist other than himself. Ueda works as a duo, so to speak. Here his own contribution, with which he thinks up and carries out everything necessary, from tools to the workshop. There his artistic counterpart, who undertakes the actual creative act, mainly in the form of random drawings. For Ueda's artistic counterpart is capricious, from quiet to calm & restrained to wildly raging. Rikuo Ueda cooperates with the wind, which gets caught in his movable devices, which then execute calligraphic diagrams on drawing surfaces using a pen.

 

Wind has always fascinated human beings. It blows away grief, provides fresh air and clear vision. And as an elementary force it has special metaphorical qualities. Like water, which flows forever but is never the same, wind, too, has a moment of eternal change, even more so of movement. Translated into the symbolic and cosmic, the wind means the moving mover, the change of transient time in the constancy of eternity. Thus, Rikuo Ueda's works of art are messages of the wind, diagrams of its capricious nature and thus also signs of our own existence, often marked by the storm of time. As drawings they are in the tradition of Japanese calligraphy, which has always found its great themes in chance and the forces of nature.

 

 

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LATEST EXHIBITIONS

RIKUO UEDA - 100 ARTISTS / 10 DAYS / 1 SPRING
Digital spring meeting of the Stiftung Nantesbuch

2020 April

 

WIND

Solo exhibition - ITO (Stuttgart)
28.06.2019-20.09.2019

LETTER
Solo exhibition - Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln
Music: Masanori Tamaki, Japan (Orgel)
Speaker:
Dr. Sebastian Giesen, Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung | Dr. Guido Schlimbach, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter

Ausstellung: 17. Mai - 15. Juli 2018

 

AFTER NATURE - MATERIAL, FORM, STRUCTURE

Group exhibition - Museum Sinclair-Haus

June 25 - September 10, 2017

 

DER BAUM ALS KUNSTWERK
Group exhibition - Wälderhaus

September 2, 2017 – January 14, 2018

PRESS

Art Magazin 5/2020     |     Art Magazin 1/2015     |     Monopol Magazin (2015)    |    Pipeline (2014)

 

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