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.
Returning to secular life
Trained and became a buddha monk in Eiheiji
MFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Sculpture
BFA in Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Sculpture
exhibition "互 - Traces of Time and Body" Marco Gallery, Osaka
exhibition "Micro Salon" CADAN OTEMACHI, Tokyo
exhibition "The Space of Harmony – Inspired by MYAF2025" WALL_alternative, Tokyo solo
exhibition "Two Temporalities" KANA KAWANISHI gallery, Tokyo
exhibition "Weaving Landscapes with Harmony" WALL_alternative, Tokyo
exhibition "Panoramic Room" Point of Parallel [by Marco Gallery], Osaka
exhibition "Micro Salon" CADAN YURAKUCHO, Tokyo
exhibition "Contemporary Manners" ART HUB NAGOYA, Nagoya
exhibition "SIGN by Acxyz Creativ" SHUTL, Tokyo
exhibition "Gigs and Hobbies: The Everyday in Art Practice" WHAT CAFE, Tokyo
exhibition "AMTEUR vol3" H BEAUTY&YOUTH, Tokyo
exhibition "Worlds in balance: Art in Japan from the postwar to the present" Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo
solo exhibition "decay, remains" KANA KAWANISHI gallery, Tokyo
solo exhibition "now on the road" TENSHADAI, Kyoto
exhibition "Visionaries: Making Another Perspective" Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum, Kyoto
exhibition "The Age of Not Believing" Ginza Tsutaya, Tokyo
exhibition "Têmporas/テンプラ KUROOBIANACONDA #4" Sokyo Lisbon, Lisbon
exhibition "AS SEEN BY" Ba-tsu Art 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
solo exhibition "My Sútra" KANA KAWANISHI gallery, Tokyo
solo exhibition "ALLDAY TODAY" gallery HIROUMI, Tokyo
sanwacompany Art Award / Art in The House 2019 , Finalist
GEIDAI ARTS IN MARUNOUCHI 2014 , Mitsubishi Estate Prize
MAEBASHI ART COMPE LIVE 2012 , Special Judges Prize
Sculpture Artist, Born in 1990.
2024
2016
2014
Exhibitions
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2019
2018
Award
2019
2014
2012
Collection
Taguchi Art Collection (Japan)
Daisuke Miyatsu Collection (Japan)
UESHIMA MUSEUM COLLECTION (Japan)
The Sanders Collection (The Netherlands)