Kikuji Kawada - The Last Cosmology

Kikuji Kawada

The Last Cosmology (Special Edition)

Published by MACK + GOLIGA, 2015

Size: 24 x 34 cm

86 Pages + 67 Tritone Plates

Hardcover (box set) + Softcover (book)

Languages: Japanese

Limited Edition of 150 copies (Signed and Numbered)

Astrology, once a scholarly tradition, links astronomical phenomena to events in the human world. The Last Cosmology reveals Kikuji Kawada's preoccupation with the cosmos, as well as his fleeting empathy for the vanishing custom of divination. Inspired by the apocalyptic skyscapes of painter Emil Nolde, Kawada photographed abnormal and calamitous weather—gusts of wind that shape curling cloud patterns, electrical storms, or rain that hits glass.

Captured between 1980 and 2000, this work is part of "The Catastrophe Trilogy," a chronicle that links the dramas in the sky to the end of two historical eras on earth: the Showa era in Japan, which ended with the death of the emperor in 1989, and the end of the 20th century. Kawada says, "I imagine the era and myself as an implicitly intertwined catastrophe... I want to spy on the depths of a multicolored heart that is like a Karman vortex."

- Goliga Books