Leiko Ikemura: Even more tomorrows

Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB, Burgos, Spain

They are hybrid forms, as the artist herself points out, in which the use of materials close to the earth - ceramics, bronzes, pigments - reinforce the representation of beings equated in their vital condition. Human figures transmuted into trees, personified plant organs and animals crossed by herbal attributes speak to us of a world in which the border between different species must be rethought.

 

Leiko Ikemura has composed for the Caja de Burgos CAB Art Center a warning to an increasingly suffocating society through a serene work, a transcript of the artist´s personality, but in which the viewer is given the mission of contributing mystery to the narrative and turning it into something fantastic or, on the contrary, keeping it in the realm of reality. Leiko Ikemura (Tsu, Mie, Japan), has been based in Europe since 1972 and is considered one of the most relevant artists of the art of our time. Not in vain have her exhibitions in the most prominent museums and art centers been taking place since the eighties. To cite just some of her most influential and recent works, we point out those held in 2006 at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and in 2019 at The National Art Center in Tokyo and at the Kunstmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. She was also recognized in 2008 with the August Macke Prize from Hochsauerlandkreis and in 2001 by the association of German critics. this is her first exhibition in Spain in an art center.