My desire to visit Boston grows daily:
The Divine Gas, Aoshima's work for the ICA, depicts a giant girl lying in a lush landscape. The setting seems idyllic and serene-butterflies flutter, a deer nestles near her foot, a couple frolics hand-in-hand. Meanwhile, a billowing cloudscape, lorded over by a genie creature, emerges from her bottom. A few figures sit nestled in the clouds, while others tumble toward the ground. Like an updated version of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1500), the mural is mysterious tale of good and evil. An elegant and energetic fusion of opposing forces—beauty and darkness, the natural and supernatural, humor and earnestness—The Divine Gas invites viewers into Aoshima's fantastical daydream.
Is Boston on the way to Japan? Maybe we could drop in to take photos, then go to Japan to have her sign them?
ReplyDeletethat sounds pretty perfect to me...
ReplyDeletebeautiful.. have you seen her work in the barcelona exhibit that is currently running?
ReplyDeletelove her website too.. chihoaoshima.com =) really love to have a print of hers in my flat