Shoichi hasegawa biography of alberta

Home / Related Biographies / Shoichi hasegawa biography of alberta

His graphic creation, beyond the artistic sign nourished by evocation as well as abstraction, takes off from a technical arpeggio that is however regularly challenged in order to mediate the interior appeal to the best of its delicacy. He very quickly adapted the techniques of engraving that he discovered some thirty years ago with Hayter at Atelier 17.

1957 First solo exhibition in Tokyo. Hasegawa became interested in the lyrical abstract works of American artists Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Morris Graves.

In 1961 Hasagawa moved to Paris and began working with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. Shoichi Hasegawa leaves Japan for France with his wife to learn the technique of color etching in the famous "Atelier 17" under the direction of SW HAYTER where Picasso and Miro and many other important artists had learned engraving before him.

1929

Hasegawa left Japan for France in the sixties to develop his knowledge of engraving. Shoichi Hasegawa's engravings reflect a poetry resulting from the orientalist climate and Western modernism where happy, fruitful and mysterious emotion extends the aesthetic manifesto. The superposition of the inks creates secondary or tertiary tones and veils the luster of the paper around the line bitten by the acid, the relief of which is sculpted and white on the print.

The gaze, always confronted with the movement of light, sometimes settles on the profiles of nature or of legendary vessels and then flies off towards a myriad of faunic or abstract signs.

Shoichi Hasegawa Japan , b. Emanation of an active spiritual life, each print charged with energy bears witness to an unparalleled renewal whose echo approaches happiness ”.

1959 “Galerie Tokyo”, the largest and most famous gallery in Tokyo, opens its door to him and offers him to participate in an exhibition. François Calvy Important dates 1946 Just after the war, he began painting in the studio of Master Koga in Yaizu. The colors endowed with a range of very different values translate by their frail transparency the precariousness of an instant.

In search of new dimensions, the young painter steeped in Japanese tradition joined the NIKA group (modern painting) in 1955 and realized his dream in the 1960s by settling permanently in France.
Since 1975 he has lived in Vetheuil, in Val-d'Oise, France where Claude Monet had owned a house.

See a list of available inventory for Shoichi Hasegawa

American and European museums have also been able to capture the artistic impact by enriching their collection of painted and engraved works by Hasegawa, a link between Eastern and Western sensibilities.

This duality is reflected throughout his work where the firmament of his symbolic and secret writing plays with suggested colors and midtones, transparent and always harmonious. Throughout the years Hasegawa's work has moved forward from his early symbolic work with his use of ancient Japanese painting materials, through to abstract painting and print making.

From then on, its graphic expression is characterized by dualities: tradition-modernism, abstraction-figuration, East-West.