Kan Yasuda – Isole del Silenzio

Marble becomes a vessel for stillness in Isole del Silenzio, where Japanese sculptor Kan Yasuda transforms stone into a meditative landscape of form and void. Presented by the Fondation d’Entreprise Wilmotte as an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition unfolds as a ‘mineral garden’ composed of ten marble sculptures arranged like silent islands within space.

Carved with precision and restraint, Yasuda’s works embody the Japanese concept of Ma, the interval or charged emptiness between things, where absence becomes as significant as presence. Voids hollowed into the stone invite a slow, attentive encounter, establishing a quiet rhythm between mass and openness, light and shadow. In the subdued atmosphere of the exhibition, sculpture operates less as object and more as spatial experience, guiding the viewer toward a state of introspection.