Aki Kuroda - Cosmoflower

From Alice's garden, Aki Kuroda extracts the flowers, adopting a binary palette: red and black.

Kuroda 110191, Cosmoflower, 2002 - 62.5 x 44 CM

Aki declines the subject to exhaustion, like a virtuoso imposes his scales daily. Its flowers transform and take the form of a dress, a fish, a cat, a heart, animals, of course Alice's rabbit, but also the elephant which symbolizes for Aki the danger that man poses to his own planet.

Kuroda 110095, Cosmoflower, 2002 - 62.5 x 44 CM

There is also this character with a long red nose. Aki Kuroda calls it Hana, which in Japanese means the nose, the perfume, the flower. Aki Kuroda thus once again links his work to Japan and creates a link between the Western world and the Eastern world.

Kuroda 110090, Cosmoflower, 2002 - 62.5 x 44 CM

Kuroda 110093, Cosmoflower, 2002 - 62.5 x 44 CM

Now, what does this flower represent? Is it a drawing or an ideogram?
Everyone has their own answer. Aki likes to keep it a mystery.

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