OPENING 31 OCTOBER 2025 IN AMSTERDAM
THE ARTIST WILL BE PRESENT.
Cupido is drawn to transitions – those spaces and moments between light and shadow, between body and nature, where everything is interconnected – as well as to the Japanese concept of mono no aware, a bittersweet emotional awareness of impermanence and the beauty and sadness that lie within that transience. His figures are quietly absorbed by the sea, enveloped in blossoms, or stand in juxtaposition with the moon.
One of the works in the exhibition is a large-scale version of Cupido’s recurring ideogram Moon over Fuji, reflecting the artist’s ongoing dialogue with Japan. He returned there once more this summer. Initially, Mount Fuji remained hidden – often veiled in twilight or mist, which only enhances its mystique and beauty. Thus the mountain becomes a place where, as Cupido reflects, “one can only surrender completely.”
The blue hour becomes a metaphor – a moment when intuition leads the way and nothing is fixed. It is a space of contemplation, softness, and vulnerability. This atmosphere is reinforced by Cupido’s use of handmade Japanese paper – essential to his practice for its tactile presence and the way pigment sinks into its fibres. Image and paper become one.
Bildhalle becomes a space for quiet experience – or a place to be uplifted by Cupido’s
playful, poetic interpretations, born in the blue hour.