FUKIKO NAKABAYASHI02 - 14.04.1976

The Japanese artist FUKIKO NAKABAYASHI exhibits about twenty drawings at Galerie S:t Petri, Lund, from 2 to 14 April 1976.
The pencil drawings consist only of variously long broken lines.
According to the artist, life can be described as a line in which events are inscribed — where the traditions of older generations and the future of our children are simultaneously represented.
Somewhere along this line of time we are now situated.
The cut lines speak of the fragmentation of all things.
The interruptions prompt us to ask why — they draw our attention to the ruptures in the cycle of life.
Fukiko Nakabayashi has long worked with lines, previously using materials such as yarn, rubber bands, and steel wire.
With these materials, she has built her spatial ideas.
Since 1975, however, she has drawn her lines in pencil and placed the drawings on the wall.
Yet the remaining space of the exhibition room is still significant, as part of a harmonious whole.
Fukiko Nakabayashi came to Europe in 1972.
Two years later, she participated in an international sculpture symposium in northern Skåne.
For the past year she has lived in Sweden.
She has never before held a solo exhibition outside Japan.
The exhibition is open weekdays 3 p.m.–8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 12 p.m.–5 p.m.