The Wind Rises
Just when it felt like the days were getting shorter, the year rolled by and a new one came unceremoniously. This year, on my way home from Shanghai, I suffered an outbreak of the COVID-19，Although the test results is not positive, I had a high fever, cough and general weakness.
At the end of last year in Shanghai, I moved out of the studio where I had lived for 10 years, with a limited time to negotiate various matters such as the renewal of my contract. When I returned to Japan, the sudden tiredness I felt coming on convinced me. It was like a blank calendar with nothing written on it.
I was forced to cancel my trip to India due to the COVID-19，I haven’t been able to go to India for three years.
Mr. Qin Feng was born and raised in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and spent his university life in Shandong. After graduating, he lived and working as an artist in New York for many years, now based in Shanghai, where he exhibits his large-scale works in major galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. As Mr. Qin Feng’s first solo exhibition in Japan, I wanted to use his name as the inspiration for the theme of this exhibition, and at that moment the melody of “The Wind Rises” by Seiko Matsuda echoed in my mind. And “The Wind Rises” is also a famous movie by Studio Ghibli, The theme of this exhibition was decided. As the writer’s name suggests, just like the wind, spontaneous, easy-going and big-hearted, the attitude of those who come and those who go is presented in his works.
—-Shun
