Shigeko HIRAKAWA
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"Shigeko
Hirakawa is the only woman in the group, living in Paris since 1983,
she has studied fine art and speaks perfect French. She is also the
only one to have conceived an ample project of Land Art in the nerve
centre of the town, at the confluence of the two rivers of Mont de
Marsan, the Midou and the Douze which unite to form the Midouze. The
project has two parts. Upstream of the confluence point, the dock of
the watering place, a covered, semi-circular building : in the water or
basin are plunged 12 wood columns whose bark is garnished with a light
green resin ring. On the roof terrace, a carpet of grass replaces the
sample of local flora that the artist had dreamed of growing there. "
Text
by
Pierre Restany from the catalogue "Mont-de-Marsan sculptures 1997" See also a text by Pierre Restany from the catalogue "Selected Art Works, 1993-1998" Transmutation / Life 1997 Wash-house "Cale de l'Abreuvoir" (100 m2), Mont-de-Marsan 12 billets of maritime pine 250cm high and 40cm in diameter, polyester resin, spring water (Exhibition "Mont-de-Marsan sculptures, Japan, Creation in-situ 1997", Organisation by Mont-de-Marsan City and Despiau-Wlérick Museum in France) |
