Aki Lumi
Aki Lumi was born in Tokyo and has been living and working in Paris since 1993. His work has been exhibited internationally, including in France, Japan, and China.
Through media such as photography, painting, and drawing, Lumi employs organic and inorganic forms to explore the relationships between systems in the man-made and natural worlds. The artist has previously superimposed web-like networks of lines that reference the living environment over photographs of architecture and street scenes (the artist's 'Traceryscape' series). Conversely, he has layered complex systems of ink work recalling architectural drawings over photographs of plants and trees (in his 'Architectural Nature' series).
In the 'Fracto-graphs', representational imagery becomes dissolved in an organic interlocking of gestural paint marks and geometric tracery in ink. Scale becomes mutable and we can imagine the works oscillating between micro and macro levels: where straight-edged forms of the built environment re-emerge at microscopic levels in the natural world, and where freely brushed paint could in turn echo cosmic-scaled formations.
Demonstrating the artist's skillful manipulation of line and color, flatness and depth, Lumi's 'Fracto-graphs' configure a multi-dimensional landscape for the eye and mind.
