Tadao Cern

After abandoning architecture when he no longer felt like he could create anything but just “avoid obstacles” and after working in the worlds of photography and advertising (Samsung, BMW, New Yorker, Mentos), Tadao Cern became what he is today: one of the most interesting creators of art installations around today, with work exhibited in the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, Germany and the United States. And, now, for the first time in Spain thanks to FLORA. Whether working with botanical materials, black latex balloons or any other medium, the Lithuanian artist is often inspired more by processes than by results, thus giving rise to works that confront us with multiple interpretations. How does our behaviour affect the world around us? Why do we act the way we act? And, how do we feel when we are reunited with what we thought we had already lost? These are just some of the questions that his works pose.

Cern’s installations stand out for their clean, simple and minimalist finish. “All my artistic decisions are the result of calculations and I always look for the most hygienic expressions so that the ideas are as clean as possible”, he says. The end result is powerfully human conceptual art that invites reflective silence. Nevertheless, beneath this deep and meaningful substance, in everything Cern does lies a child’s desire to play and experiment. As well as his freedom.