Simon Fujiwara – Heaven

Seconda mostra personale di Simon Fujiwara in galleria.

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SimonFUJIWARA
Heaven

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Heaven
I know not of the reason
Why I’m so sad at heart.
A tale of bygone ages
Haunts me and won’t depart.

The air is cool at nightfall
The Rhine courses its way.
The mountain’s peak does sparkle
With evening’s final ray.

The fairest of the maidens
So marvelous up there,
Her golden jewels are shining,
She combs her golden hair.

And with her comb so golden,
she sings a song as well
Whose melody is binding
And overpowering spell.

Now in his boat, the boatman
Is seized with savage woe,
He looks up at the mountain
And shuns the rocks below.

So when the waves devour
The boat and man as one;
She sings her final words tonight;
“Fair Lorelei is done”
Adapted from a poem by Heinrich Heine, 1822

Simon Fujiwara (b. 1982 London) lives and works in Berlin and London.


In 2011 he won the South Bank Arts Awards, as emerging visual artist. In 2010 he won the Baloise Art Prize, for Art Basel 41 and the Cartier Award for Frieze Art Fair.
Most recent solo exhibitions: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2017); Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf (2016); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016); Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo (2016); Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv (2015); Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2013); Tate St. Ives, St. Ives (2012); Performa 11, New York (2011); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2012); Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (2011); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2010).
Most recent group exhibitions: Aichi Arts Center, Tokyo (2017); Camden Arts Center, London (2016); Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2012); Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2011); 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo (2010); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2010); GAM, Turin (2010); 53rd Venice Biennale ("The Collectors", Nordic Pavilion, with Elmgreen & Dragset), Venice (2009); Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (2009).


Works by Simon Fujiwara are in the collections of: Prada, Milan; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Parasol Unit Foundation, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London.