A surreal take on the ear trumpet by Takeshi Makishima. This dreamlike scene is typical of the Japanese-born, Dusseldorf-based artist’s pared-back yet highly evocative style, whereby “furniture and objects become symbols to be fixated on and casual interactions take on the timbre of a magic mystery maze”, in the words of Louise Benson in her article on Makishima’s practice for Elephant. “To follow these paintings down their natural paths is to diverge and detour through personal memories and the power of suggestion, where nothing is quite as it seems, and the journey is as meditative as it is winding.”
