plantica's "Anti-War and Peace" Installation at Huis Ten Bosch's Flower Grand Festival

In the spring of 2015, plantica was invited as a guest artist to Huis Ten Bosch’s (Sasebo, Nagasaki) annual “Flower Grand Festival.” For this event, plantica designed installations across four rooms within the “Palace Huis Ten Bosch.” This report highlights the installation in the “Mural Room | Anti-War and Peace.”

Exhibition Theme: Peace, Unity, Love, and Having Flowers.

Within the “Mural Room,” which features vast murals depicting the devastation of war, plantica’s installation directly addressed these scenes, expressing a profound wish for peace through the motifs of “flowers and hands.” Countless vacuum-packed pressed flowers (approx. 800) were suspended from the ceiling. At the room’s center, an octagonal display platform held approximately 250 bouquets of artificial flowers and 30 plaster sculptures of “Hands Holding Flowers.”

plantica’s artistic statement for this installation:
“Flowers are universally cherished as symbols of peace, unity, and love, transcending nationality, religion, and generations. These symbolic sentiments and intentions are expressed when one holds a flower. In this room, amidst murals portraying the horrors of war, we aim to give form to humanity’s age-old aspiration for eternal peace through the medium of flowers and human hands, re-emphasizing the vital symbolic message that flowers carry. The flowers, seemingly floating in a vacuum, represent our prayers and wishes for peace to be passed on to future generations.”

Supplementary Information:

Flower Grand Festival: A spring festival where Huis Ten Bosch is transformed into a floral art museum. Besides plantica’s 4-room installation, it featured works like a giant flower sculpture by garden designer Kazuyuki Ishihara.

Period: April 11 (Sat) – April 30 (Thu), 2015

Palace Huis Ten Bosch: A faithful reproduction of a Dutch Royal Palace, housing the Huis Ten Bosch Museum.
Official Website: https://www.huistenbosch.co.jp/enjoy/special/palace_huistenbosch.html

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plantica 于豪斯登堡「花之大祭典」创作「壁画展厅|反战与和平」主题装置艺术

2015 年春季，plantica 受邀作为客座艺术家，参与了位于日本长崎县佐世保市“豪斯登堡”主题公园的年度盛事「花之大祭典」。plantica 负责了园内「豪斯登堡宫殿」中四个房间的装置艺术设计与布置。本文将重点介绍其中在「壁画展厅 | 反战与和平」的特别创作。

展览主题：和平、团结、爱与手持鲜花 (Peace, Unity, Love, and Having Flowers)
在展出着描绘战争残酷景象巨幅壁画的“壁画展厅”中，plantica 的装置艺术与壁画形成对话，以“花与手”这一核心视觉元素，深刻表达了对和平的向往与祈愿。其设计包括：从天花板垂下无数（约800枚）经过真空封装的押花；展厅中央设置了八角形展示台，其上陈列着约250束包装精美的人造花束，以及30件名为“手持花朵”的石膏雕塑。

plantica 对此装置艺术的理念阐述如下：
“花卉，作为和平、协作与博爱的象征，跨越国籍、宗教与世代，深受世人喜爱。当人们手持花卉时，便赋予了其象征性的情感与意志。在这个描绘战争创伤的壁画空间中，我们试图通过花与手这一媒介，具象化人类自古以来对恒久和平的深切渴望，并重新唤起人们对花卉所承载的重要象征意义的认知。那悬浮于空中的真空封装花朵，正是我们寄托给下一代、对和平的期盼与祈祷。”

补充信息:

「花之大祭典」: 这是豪斯登堡每年春季举办的盛大庆典，整个园区装点得如同一座花的艺术殿堂。除了 plantica 设计的宫殿内四个房间的艺术装置外，还有日本知名庭园设计师石原和幸先生创作的巨型花卉雕塑等精彩内容。

举办期间: 2015年4月11日(周六) – 4月30日(周四) ※活动已结束

豪斯登堡宫殿 (Palace Huis Ten Bosch): 该建筑忠实再现了荷兰女王陛下的宫殿，内部设有豪斯登堡美术馆。
官方网站: https://www.huistenbosch.co.jp/enjoy/special/palace_huistenbosch.html

「壁画展厅 | 反战与和平」: 日本国内规模最大的穹顶壁画展厅之一，高19米，总面积达825平方米。由荷兰新锐画家罗布·斯考特 (Rob Scholte) 及其团队耗时4年完成，壁画主题为《反战与和平》。