KAZUHARU HANADA:Sea and Refrain

2022.04.29-07.03
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Introduction

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Kazuharu Hanada

Artist

Kazuharu Hanada (1946-2017) was one of Hokkaido‘s representative portrait painters. Born in Sapporo in 1946, and study in the oil painting department at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1965. He was inspired by Professor Ryohei Koiso’s classes and further pursued his own art method. As a student, Hanada was experimenting with various forms of modern art. From pre-war styles such as Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism to post-war Abstract Expressionism. after graduating in 1972, Hanadatravelled to Europe until returning to his homeland of Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1974.

 

Hanada continued to experiment with graphicpainting throughout his studies, and upon his return to his hometown, he began to use squares to compose paintings on brightly coloured surfaces.Eventually, he created a way of expressing the essence of Hokkaido's nature and his own daily life in abstractforms. While influenced by the post-war trend ofabstract expressionism and hard-edge painting, Hanada was also deeply interested in the Rinzai school and the Kyoto painter Heihachiro Fukuda (1892-1974). Hanada's expressive style is full of poetic sensuality and clear visual effects thatexpress the richness of the phenomena around him, and among the many abstractpaintings produced in post-war Japan, Hanada's works are rare in their coolness and originality. Hanada continued to work in Hokkaido until 2017.

Ji Ran

Curator

Curator, writer. He has curated exhibitions such as “The Law of Perspective” Wang Peng solo exhibition, “The interval in flux” Jin Yanan solo exhibition, “Unlimited Light”Macular Art Collective, “Peinture peinture” Rue Oberkampf, Paris, “Paris photographie”The Gallery B&B, Paris. Articles are published in journals such as Art Journal , New Art Museum Studies, Art Monthly, OCT Boxes Art Museum Ⅰ, and so on.

Deng Zhiting

Curator

Curator of the Boxes Art Museum, writer, art translator. MA graduate from University of Leeds, UK. Her recent research based on modern contemporary art history, focusing on female identity awareness and philosophy. She has curated exhibitions such as "Lin Zheng, Pan Zegia: Alter-ego”, "Wu Zhuozhao, Huang Yizhe: Relative Order" and "Ma Wenyi: Merry-go-round".