Azalea

Yoshihiro Suda draws on the tradition of the Japanese wood carving. Employing the classical media, the artist creates hyperrealistic images of plants, which he places in unexpected surroundings, where they could easily be overlooked. The azalea which ‘grows out of’ a pillar, alters our perception of space, as it – paradoxically – becomes a part of it. In a parallel process, a transformation takes place of our perception of the work itself, in which the perfect visual verisimilitude of the representation of nature is juxtaposed with a striking location.