In the manner of the Japanese landscape gardens of the Muromachi era, where
restraint was programmatic and suggestion was preferred to explicit statement,
a construction of landscape will be produced, which impetus is unambiguously
the gesture, the suggestion of nature.
10 mats of artificial lawn - the lawn seen as an icon for the link between
nature and cultivated land, a kind of idealization of landscape - in the
measure of the common size 180 cm x 90 cm, which is used for the Japanese
Tatami mats, will be placed on an expanse of white pebbles in a certain
grouping. These construction of landscape, regarding to the tradition of
the Japanese landscape gardens of the Muromachi era, is not an unalterable,
from the aura of the artists hands ennobled installation. Because the visitors
of the exhibition are required to change the "Tatami Landscape"
transfering the lawn mats as they want and to practise raking the pebbles.
Through it the project should be constantly in a kind of procedural transformation.
Furthermore are the visitors of the exhibition invited, to take a seat
at the mats of artificial lawn, to be part of the landscape by itself,
to make themselves comfortabel by having a cup of tea.
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