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Ekkeland Goetze
Germany
Painting, Soil on Paper
Size: 28 W x 28 H x 1.2 D in
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Earth Art Work-Nº 754 on Japanese paper on shirting on frame RICE The concept: Japan with its exciting, mystical, far eastern culture was deeply shocked by the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident in March 2011. With this project I would like to express my sympathy and respect for the people in Japan. Water, Salt and RICE, sacrified to the gods, deeply rooted in Japanese culture and with such great influence it so greatly, that it is said where no RICE thrives, thrive no Japanese. Therefore this work is dedicated to RICE, one of the most important staples in over half of mankind’s diet. RICE needs the shelter of the valleys and the humid warmth of the South, being unable to survive in the harshness of high altitudes or the cool North. The limited cultivation area has made it as valuable as silver. Each RICE cutting is cared for separately, each inch of ground cultivated with utmost care. The farmers bind harvested RICE into artistically bound sheaves, laying them out in patterns to dry… From the water filled terraces in the South to the snow covered fields in the North, SOIL has been collected from the RICE fields of the four Japanese main islands Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu. Also from fields soiled by the salt of the tsunami and which farmers now struggle to recultivate. The project will be completed with a SOIL sample from the top of the sacred Ontake-san, where the sky meets the EARTH, and two other samples from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which mark a turning point in the history of Japan and the world. The produced EARTH images will visualize one part of the diversity of Japan’s culture. They are also an attempt to come to terms with a tragedy. The Japanese have shown the world, how to master natural and social challanges with grace.
2012
Soil on Paper
One-of-a-kind Artwork
28 W x 28 H x 1.2 D in
Not Framed
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EKKELAND GÖTZE was born in Dresden (Germany) in 1948. He has been working as a painter, silk screen printer, engineer and manager. In 1988 he moved to Munich. He has been occupied with EARTH since 1989 and has been working at a conceptional IMAGE of the EARTH since then. He has realized projects all over the world. In today’s times, in which human influences subject EARTH to immense changes, which are scientifically proven and controversially discussed, his artwork directs human awareness onto this complex of problems. 2018 he receives the Seerosenpreis of the state capital Munich
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