Norihiko Dan - Chikei

On Chikei
Norihiko Dan / at Architektur Galelie Berlin, 19th of January 2016

The earth is made up of the sphere as it's main body and it's epidermis that is Chikei. The aspect to see the earth as a globe tends to provide us a particular vision of earth as a planet controlled by a single logic of dynamics similar to the early atomic physics.This leads to such global aspects as a topic of CO2 reduction plan, emphasis on the role of UN, and sygnificance to establish global standards for anti-terrorism and for stabilization of world economy. On the other hand, Chikei is the cradle for the diversity sometimes as an opposition as well as it's compensation to the globalism.
It is amazing that all kinds of various climate and environmental diversity are created in only a quarter of a Marathon course in height, that is 10km, from the top of Everest to the deepest bottom of the sea.
Chikei is composed of seas, mountains, deserts, wet lands existing unevenly and it becomes a body to give birth to multiple lives and diverse cultures of the universe. Chikei is an interface between lives and a sphere. Fingerprints of the earth is an analogy of Chikei which becomes a symbol of the diversity as an icon with no particular form.

A series of 4 artworks is made as my hommage to Chikei, seeking for it's various expressions, made of only paper and water. I believe that Chikei is formed by several powers such as water, wind,wave and sunlight in a volcanic activities or in a muddy current of the earth, with nobody's intentions. I think that it just came on earth.
I used water for the artworks because even after it has gone, it leaves profound expressions of it's engagement to the material.
In the process of these inprovisation, I challenged to have a dialogue to Chikei through such experiances and engagements which I took to the terrain transformed by an unpredictable force of others.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on January 21, 2016, 7:00 pm
Welcome: Ulrich Müller
Introduction:  Felix Claus

On Chikei
Norihiko Dan / at Architektur Galelie Berlin, 19th of January 2016

The earth is made up of the sphere as it's main body and it's epidermis that is Chikei. The aspect to see the earth as a globe tends to provide us a particular vision of earth as a planet controlled by a single logic of dynamics similar to the early atomic physics.This leads to such global aspects as a topic of CO2 reduction plan, emphasis on the role of UN, and sygnificance to establish global standards for anti-terrorism and for stabilization of world economy. On the other hand, Chikei is the cradle for the diversity sometimes as an opposition as well as it's compensation to the globalism.
It is amazing that all kinds of various climate and environmental diversity are created in only a quarter of a Marathon course in height, that is 10km, from the top of Everest to the deepest bottom of the sea.
Chikei is composed of seas, mountains, deserts, wet lands existing unevenly and it becomes a body to give birth to multiple lives and diverse cultures of the universe. Chikei is an interface between lives and a sphere. Fingerprints of the earth is an analogy of Chikei which becomes a symbol of the diversity as an icon with no particular form.

A series of 4 artworks is made as my hommage to Chikei, seeking for it's various expressions, made of only paper and water. I believe that Chikei is formed by several powers such as water, wind,wave and sunlight in a volcanic activities or in a muddy current of the earth, with nobody's intentions. I think that it just came on earth.
I used water for the artworks because even after it has gone, it leaves profound expressions of it's engagement to the material.
In the process of these inprovisation, I challenged to have a dialogue to Chikei through such experiances and engagements which I took to the terrain transformed by an unpredictable force of others.

The opening of the exhibition will take place on January 21, 2016, 7:00 pm
Welcome: Ulrich Müller
Introduction:  Felix Claus