Location: Adelong Services Club
Artist Statement: Forests, organisms, and even landscapes were lost in large-scale disasters, and the original scenery is remembered in the back of people’s hearts. I created this work in the hope that it will be revived. On the branches of the yellow trunk of the “Tree of the Wind” grow wings. These are wings that know the wind, and they translate their movements into art. The wind carried the soil and created the earth, carrying people and creating culture. The wind is invisible, but its strength, flow, and quantity are delicate and complex, and are closely related to us, and it is the earth’s breath. The metal mesh of the wing has an aperture ratio of 77% to allow the wind to escape, in softening movement, allowing light to pass through and not obstruct the scenery. We hope that it will be able to recall the original scenery in the memory and heal and enrich people’s hearts.
Biography: Kaoru Matsumoto received educational support of Kyoto prefecture and he traveled to Central America and South America from 1977 to 1978. He traveled in various countries and absorbed the nature and culture of those countries. After returning home, he started to execute kinetic sculptures. The same time came repeatedly every day. But it was never the same as the day before. Surely, nature and the person evolve. He thought to try to express this with sculpture.
The wind sends us world information precisely. Matsumoto represents wind through the medium of sculpture often containing a message from nature.
Kaoru has exhibited at Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition 1979, where he was awarded the Prize of Excellence. He received the Sydney Water Sculpture Prize at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi in 2007, and has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi in 2007, 2010 & 2014.
Stage one of the Snowy Valleys Sculpture Trail was jointly funded by the Australian and NSW Government’s Bushfire Local Economic Recovery Fund, under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.
