”Beyond the Ideal Landscape,“ the first major museum solo exhibition in Taiwan by Japanese artist Yuichi Hirako.
This exhibition showcases Hirako’s keen sensitivity to the ambiguous boundaries between reality and imagination. Through his works, he invites viewers into a fantastical world of characters, offering a poetic exploration of the fluid interplay between urban life and the natural environment.
Keelung, embraced by mountains and sea, is interwoven with mist and rain, where the boundary between city and nature shifts between clarity and haze. The exhibition Beyond the Ideal Landscape marks Japanese artist Hirako Yuichi‘s first major solo museum exhibition in Taiwan. Through his keen observations of these fluid boundaries, he invites the audience into a fantastical world of characters, offering a poetic experience of the dynamic interplay between urban life and nature.
From an animistic perspective, Hirako Yuichi creates small tree-like beings adorned with treetops on their heads and dressed in various costumes. These allegorical figures, reminiscent of guardians from a natural fairy tale, use a unique artistic vocabulary to explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and the environment in modern society.
Keelung’s landscape serves as the exhibition’s core inspiration—its townscape rises and falls with the terrain, intimately connected to the ocean, shaping both the daily lives and cultural identity of its residents. Through large-scale installations, sculptures, and paintings, Hirako interweaves Keelung’s geographical and cultural context, exploring the coexistence of urban textures and the natural environment through three central themes: town, mountains, and ocean.
