KANJI HASEGAWA
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photo by Ryuhei Yokoyama
Many people seem to understand the perception of distance and time as
related, as can be seen in the phrases “the distant past” and “the near
future.”* When I found this out, I felt that I understood part of the reason
that my interest is drawn to the medium of sculpture.
The distance and the relationship between the artwork and myself, and the
perspective possessed by the work itself, are conveyed to me as time. Time that
someone, somewhere, has spent is taking the form of mass before my eyes.
In China, they use the term “Kung Fu.” I think many people will associate that
word with Bruce Lee, but it means the “time and effort” put into something.
This term is still used in the world of Zen Buddhism, which was transmitted
from China, and I learned about a life lived in awareness of Kung Fu
in ascetic training when I was an itinerant monk.
The frameworks of sculpture and Zen are perhaps no more than entry portals.
To see the time someone has spent (which is) internalized in what is
before my eyes. My interest is drawn to this wordless communication.
— Kanj Hasegawai
*See Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, Chikumashobo, 1988.
BFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Sculpture
MFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Sculpture
Trained and became a buddha monk in Eiheiji
Returning to secular life
exhibition " MAEBASI ART COMPE LIVE 2012 " Arts Maebashi,Gunma
exhibition " GEIDAI ARTS in MARUNOUCHI 2014 " Marunouchi Building,Tokyo
exhibition " New Works From an Old Studio #9 " Denchu Hirakushi House and Atelier,Tokyo
solo exhibition " RESEARCH & DESTROY " cc4441,Tokyo
exhibition " CC NIGHT / PLAY ANARCHY " cc4441,Tokyo
solo exhibition " ALLDAY TODAY " gallery HIROUMI,Tokyo
solo exhibition " My Sútra " KANA KAWANISHI gallery,Tokyo
exhibition " Some kinda freedom " KANA KAWANISHI gallery,Tokyo
exhibition " Plastering and Sculpture.Earth and Wood. " Japanesque gallery,Nagoya
exhibition " STORAGE " BLACK STORAGE FUJII DAIMARU,Kyoto
exhibition " AS SEEN BY " Ba-tsu Art Gallery,Tokyo
exhibition " Têmporas/テンプラ KUROOBIANACONDA #4 " Sokyo Lisbon,Lisbon
exhibition " The Age of Not Believing " Ginza Tsutaya,Tokyo
exhibition " Visionaries: Making Another Perspective " Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum,Kyoto
solo exhibition " now on the road " TENSHADAI ,Kyoto
solo exhibition " decay, remains " KANA KAWANISHI gallery,Tokyo
exhibition " Worlds in balance : Art in Japan from the postwar to the present “ Okura Museum of Art,Tokyo
exhibition " AMTEUR vol3 " H BEAUTY&YOUTH,Tokyo
MAEBASHI ART COMPE LIVE 2012 , Special Judges Prize
GEIDAI ARTS IN MARUNOUCHI 2014 , Mitsubishi Estate Prize
sanwacompany Art Award / Art in The House 2019 , Finalist
Sculpture Artist, Born in 1990.
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Award
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