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Harumi Klossowska de Rola: Yakushima, the Mystic Island

Past viewing_room
21 March - 29 April 2023
  • Harumi Klossowska de Rola 'Yakushima, the Mystic Island' March 23rd - April 29th Download the Catalogue From her childhood in...

    Harumi Klossowska de Rola

    "Yakushima, the Mystic Island"

    March 23rd - April 29th

     

    Download the Catalogue

     

    From her childhood in the Medici Villa to the Rossinière chalet, nested between the forests and mountains of Switzerland, Harumi Klossowska de Rola grew up in an extraordinary artistic universe.

     It is through these ageless places, with their poetic atmospheres brimming with fantastic artistic creations, that Harumi discerned the mysterious power of true masterpieces: timelessness.

     

    Through the exhibition ‘‘Yakushima, the Mystic Island’’, Harumi Klossowska de Rola invites us to discover an esoteric art, between dream and reality, at the crossroads of Egyptian, Japanese and Etruscan statuary. She captures the subtle beauty, danger, aura and mystery of wild animals, delicately diffusing a sensation of rare power.

     

     

  • Along her trajectory as a sculptor, Harumi has never ceased to recognize this deep emotion that she combines admirably with...

    Along her trajectory as a sculptor, Harumi has never ceased to recognize this deep emotion that she combines admirably with a fascination for flora and fauna cultivated from a young age.

     

    Thus, the discovery of her bestiary is a magical moment teeming with profound emotion. 

    These sculptures, beyond the limits of time, seem to us strangely familiar, like so many of the treasures arising from our collective subconscious, conferring a character of absolute universality to these mystical animals.

     

    Their apparent immobility is only an illusion: at any moment, Ame-no-Kaku, the monumental stag, appears to take up his sovereign march once more through the ancient forest.

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    Below:

    A spectacular gilded paravent, recto (gold leaf) and verso (palladium leaf) and "Ame-no-Kaku", the monumental Stag.

     
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Paravent, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Paravent, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Paravent, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Paravent, 2022
  • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Ame-no-Kaku (Stag)" sculpture, 2022
    Artworks

    Harumi Klossowska de Rola

    "Ame-no-Kaku (Stag)" sculpture, 2022
    Bronze and gold leaf
    H. 206 x 193 x 43 cm

    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Rereroa (Albatross)" sconce, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Rereroa (Albatross)" sconce, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Wepwawet (Wolf)" sculpture, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Wepwawet (Wolf)" sculpture, 2022
    • Gyg Yakushima Adriendirand 07

    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Athene Noctua (Little Owl)" sculpture, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Athene Noctua (Little Owl)" sculpture, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Lakshmi", 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Lakshmi", 2022

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    The Works

    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Ame-no-Kaku (Stag)" sculpture, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Ame-no-Kaku (Stag)" sculpture, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Wepwawet (Wolf)" sculpture, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Wepwawet (Wolf)" sculpture, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Daal (Deer)" sculpture, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Daal (Deer)" sculpture, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Rereroa (Albatross)" sconce, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Rereroa (Albatross)" sconce, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Paravent, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, Paravent, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Lakshmi", 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Lakshmi", 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Athene Noctua (Little Owl)" sculpture, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Athene Noctua (Little Owl)" sculpture, 2022
    • Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Grus Virgo" lamp, 2022
      Harumi Klossowska de Rola, "Grus Virgo" lamp, 2022

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