JUXTAPOZ – Yuichi Hiko “The Number of Trees” @ Modern Institute, Glasgow
Yucci Herrako It provides widespread installation in The modern institute in GlasgowWhich includes acrylic paintings and wooden sculptures across the Aird corridor and brick space, and requests a review of our relationship with nature and a hidden symbolism of the current international environmental issues, which are expressed in its beautiful aesthetic language. The interrogation of our awareness of the green spaces around us the motivation for new works: forms of leaves on household plants; Farms and arranging the flower and tuberia family in local gardens; Attractive but annoying masses of trees that make up a forest. Herrako asks us to look at the situations in which nature enters our world, disguised and permeated with human creations and techniques.
The innovative vital Hiraco style is rich in metaphor, and its composition consists of a variety of things – books, cats, vases and fruits – as well as “the tree man”. Large paintings are expansionary, as cinematic scenes and interior scenes include multiple things, while other smaller components or animals – snake, amplifier, are depicted, a pair of shoes. It was hung together in an accurate engineering arrangement, the effect is maximum, as a person and nature sits close. The carved facilities mimic this atmosphere, creating a group of different “tree men”. A self -type self -form, and this magic shape has a human body and a tree head or a pine tree full of centuries. Herrako’s personal experiences and research in Xinto and the Japanese folklore traditions of mountain worship. It is also inspired by the relevant traditions and practices that have long been present in other countries and regions.
For Herrako, the “Tree Man” is a kind of kind of RückenfigurWhich the viewer can define – imagine themselves in the same position. His bronze work Yggdrasill / booksIn 2023, it was installed in the green space at the front of the exhibition as an introduction to this character and the topics that it plays in the show – in essence, the interrogation of an anthropipxic vision of the world. Word Yggdrasill It refers to the Holy Tree that forms the central point of the universe shown in Scandinavian myths, it is the place from which all life stems. This relates to the focus of Herrako on coexistence with nature, instead of its domination, and his constant philosophical medication in his work.
All pictures compliment the modern artist and institute
