

Tokuhiro Kawai Japan, b. 1971
43.5 x 43.5 cm(Closed)
In a desire to face the fundamental religious and mythical elements of triptychs, I focused on “deities of
the sun’, which indubitably signify the same entity, the “Sun’, yet manifested in various forms and
names across the world. In the scenes, along with the deity of the sun, are dispersed in every corner all
sorts of objects, whether they be scientific or symbolic, that are associated with the sun, demonstrating
its theme of harmony and dissonance generated from the melange of diversity and commonality among
each. From the left, the triptych consists of sunrise (birth), daytime (peak), and sunset (end and
rebirth), based on the idea from various cultures of the world that likens the movement of the sun seen
from the ground to the loops of birth and death.