Leiko Ikemura
Usagi Kannon

16 Sep 2020 - 5 Mar 2021
Palma

Leiko Ikemura, Usagi Kannon

Leiko Ikemura’s bronze sculpture 'Usagi Kannon'– a monumental figure with rabbit ears and a human face – is one of the artist’s most significant motifs. The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and the subsequent birth defects in animals inspired the Japanese artist to create this sculpture. Usagi Kannon (jap. Rabbit Madonna) is reminiscent of temple sculptures and its walk-in bell-shaped skirt becomes a protective shrine. Ikemura originally conceived two Usagi Kannon as a couple: one with a smiling face as a hope-giving figure for all growing people and living things, and a mourning one,  dedicated to the people and living beings who died and suffered losses. 

Installation views

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Works

Usagi Kannon
Sleeping Forest
Trees on Head smiling
Treehead
Lying on the Lake

Leiko Ikemura

Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon
Usagi Kannon, 2012/19
patinated bronze
340 x 159 x 138 cm
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