exhibition “矩と不矩｜Two Temporalities”

KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY is pleased to announce Kanji Hasegawa’s solo exhibition “Two Temporalities,” opening on Saturday, October 25th, 2025.

Hasegawa deepened his interest in Buddhism while studying sculpture at the Tokyo University of the Arts, seeing it as a connection to the punk rock culture he had embraced since his student days and to the creative process of contemporary art, which translates concepts into form. After training at Eiheiji Temple, the head temple of the Soto Zen sect, he became a monk. In recent years, he has returned to lay life to focus entirely on his artistic practice. His works reflect his philosophy and way of life, and he is an artist gaining attention both domestically and internationally, with notable exhibition participations at the Okura Museum of Art and the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, among others.

This exhibition, the artist’s first solo show at our gallery in two years, centers on a core idea in Hasegawa’s work: the  “two distinct senses of time.” His sculptures will be showcased as a medium that can perceive time in a multiple-layer manner.