Kirakira キラキラ lights — Hand-painted paper lanterns Popup Store Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 2025
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights
Kirakira キラキラ lights

Kirakira キラキラ lights

Hand-painted paper lanterns

KiraKira - meaning “sparkling” in Japanese - is the name of the Swiss edition of Caviezel's Gifu Japanese edition chōchin lanterns created during her 2024 artist residency in Japan. KiraKira lanterns are rice paper skins over wire ribs rather than the traditional washi paper and bamboo ribs of her Gifu lanterns. Using Japanese ink and liquid dyes, Caviezel's colourful marks are a type of automatism that express the hidden colours, shadows and lights she discovered in Japan.

KiraKira lanterns are part of the continuum of Western artists entranced by chōchin that began in the 1950s when Isamu Noguchi translated chōchin as his Akari lights.

  • Popup Store Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

  • 2025

  • ø44 / ø42H50 / ø60 / ø80

  • Handpainted -

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