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HARUKO MAEDA

b.1983

BIOGRAPHY

Haruko Maeda produces highly intricate works of art with elaborate precision that remind us of traditional techniques and the dexterity of goldsmiths. The artist combines the organic with the inorganic, beauty with the hideous in a dialectic game culminating in a perfect transformation of the opposites Eros and Thanatos. Maeda deals fully with overcoming individual boundaries - unique fates are intertwined in sociological structures and a spatio-temporal framework. Maeda also finds inspiration in the western tradition of painting monarchs in which she can experiment with her existential aesthetic between life and death.

Taking traditional pictures of monarchs from art history Maeda develops upon this aesthetic- skulls are now enthroned on the skeletons of the regents dressed in magnificently decorated robes. The bony bodies dissolve peu à peu into a sea of delicate plants. The artist herself describes transience as part of an unending process of metamorphosis - she cultivates Asiatic religious beliefs that regard being born and dying as part of a larger cycle of life and permanent change.

Haruko Maeda(b.1983, Tokyo, Japan) lives and works in Linz, Austria. Maeda graduated from the Kunst Universität, Linz in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include Neverland 3, Edition, Linz (2019); Einmal Bar mit Bild, Kluckyland, Vienna, Austria (2019); Haruko Maeda and Maria Anna, Koenig 2, Vienna, Austria (2018); The Red Wine is Already Ripe in the Berry, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden(2017); Beim Dritten Du, Kluckyard, Vienna, Austria (2017);Traces of Paradise, City Gallery, Traun, Austria (2016); and Haruko Maeda, Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden. Maeda was included in Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls - Robert Runtak’s International Collection, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, Czech Republic (2017); Alice’s Twisted World, OÖ Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria (2017); Le Mal des Fleurs, Stilwerk, Vienna, Austria (2016); Das Letze im Leben, Hofburg, Innsbruck, Austria (2015); 3x3, Galerie, Graz, Austria (2015); Barockt, Kulturhaus Stockholm, Sweden (2014). Her works feature in many private and public collections including the Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany, Runtak Collection, Litomyšl, Czech Republic and Lower Austrian State Collection, Krems, Austria.

ARTWORK

PAST EXHIBITIONS

The Red Wine is Already Ripe in the Berry, 2017

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HARUKO MAEDA, 2012

LARSEN WARNER

CHRISTIAN LARSEN is a contemporary art gallery in Stockholm with an extensive international exhibition program. We represent established, mid-career and emerging Scandinavian and international artists. The gallery is committed to nourishing the careers of represented artists, while introducing to the general public other significant international artists who have rarely, if ever, exhibited in Sweden.