PARIS.- Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger is hosting a solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Susumu Shingu, entitled Cosmos, in an echo of the important retrospective Spaceship that the Mudam Luxembourg— Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean has dedicated to his work from May 18, 2018 to January 6, 2019. This exhibition has been presented in three Japanese museums, and can now be seen for the first time in Europe. It presents, among other works, Wind Caravan, an ensemble of 21 sculptures animated by the wind, in the Dräi Eechelen Park.

Following from his preceding exhibitions at the gallery, Sculptures du respir in 2006, Planet of Wind and Water in 2009, and Au-delà du temps in 2012, Cosmos assembles a selection of the artist’s sculptures from 2006 to 2017, as well as recent collages and paintings, and some of his most exceptional sculptural studies.

Sculptor of wind, water, and gravity, Susumu Shingu has regularly collaborated with the greatest talents of his era, such as Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, Issey Miyake, and Jiři Kilián. Throughout the years, he has refined the materials of his sculptures, favoring high-tech materials that grasp the smallest breeze… to create works in harmony with the secret rhythms of our planet. The art of Susumu Shingu could not exist without wind. His elegant sculptures are animated by the smallest movement of the air, and reveal the intangible but omnipresent existence of breath. This “atmospheric” material, which he makes visible and sculpts, underlines his relationship with the world, his ecological consciousness. His entire oeuvre is undergirded by his harmonious research into the rhythms and infi nite vibrations of nature, and by a force that is most fundamental to our planet — gravity. Without gravity, Susumu’s sculptures cannot blossom, as they are inseparable from their movement. After having travelled throughout the world with his sculptures, Susumu Shingu recently created his Museum of the Wind with 12 water and wind sculptures in the Arimafuji Park near Osaka, Japan. Currently, his energy is entirely dedicated to the great work of his life, Breathing Earth, the dream of a society living off of the planet’s natural energies.

Susumu Shingu was born in 1937 in Osaka. He lives and works in Sanda and Hyogo in Japan, and in Paris. After earning his diploma from the University of the Arts in Tokyo in 1960, Susumu Shingu studied painting at the Academy des BeauxArts in Rome. Painter, sculptor, maker of drawings, “researcher and philosopher” of nature, the Japanese artist soon dedicated himself to sculpture and movement. In 2014, the Susumu Shingu Wind Museum, designed by Tadao Ando, was opened in the Arimafuji Park in Sanda, near Osaka, Japan. This open-air museum presents 12 kinetic sculptures that undulate according to water and wind. In 2017, three sculptures from the artist have been set in the Stavros Niarchos Fondation Cultural Center in Athens, Greece, conceived by Renzo Piano.