Leiko Ikemura is from Japan, but has been living in Europe—first in Spain, more recently in Switzerland—since 1972. She is profoundly influenced by her original homeland, and, if not as a believer, by the religions, customs, and myths of the Far East. She has not gone unnoticed in the recent attention given Swiss art, but her first one-woman exhibition in a public institution occurred not in Switzerland but in Bonn. What was largely lost in group shows was here precisely lit: an artistic bridge between East and West, executed more in terms of content than of form. And ultimately, Ikemura’s