Spending her early childhood years at the Villa Medici, in Rome, Harumi Klossowska de Rola roamed its gardens seeking small, colorful stones. She also looked forward to meeting the different pets that visitors brought with them. The daughter of the French artist Balthus and the Japanese artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, Harumi is still fascinated by the natural world. In fact, at home, near Gstaad, Switzerland, she lives among wild animals: three wolves, a serval wildcat named Nelson Mandela, and a dog. “I am very much inhabited by the idea, maybe the dream, of an untouched environment, of a nature without us, or very little of us, of a natural world that dictates us, not the other way around,” she says. A jewelry designer and sculptor, Harumi often creates large creatures. Whales. Lions. Foxes. “Horizon,” her first solo exhibition with Acquavella at its New York location, features more than 20 new and recent works that continue the artist’s exploration of the natural world. —Jeanne Malle
