A Celebration of Grapes
Shinsuke Kawahara
As summer fades into fall, a celebration to mark the grape harvest begins.
La fête des vendanges, as the festival is known in French, offers concerts, food stalls, and a lively atmosphere that heralds the coming of autumn.
To celebrate the occasion, I drew a horse with a rather silly expression, surrounded by bunches of grapes and a group of rabbits.
Shinsuke Kawahara
Kawahara is a multidisciplinary artist based in Paris since the early 1980s. He has held a solo exhibition at Eleven Steens in Brussels and participated in numerous other exhibitions, including at the Monnaie de Paris, the Musée des Arts et Métiers, and Nishi Honganji Temple in Kyoto. In addition to designing carré scarves, he has collaborated with Hermès on the design of a limited-edition bottle for the fragrance Rose Ikebana and the scenography for the 2023 exhibition Hermès Petit h at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka. Rabbits have long been a central motif in his work.
Photo: K .Kurigami
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