Selected Works

AKM, 2017
Pencil on Paper , 50 x 130 x 45 cm
ID #5157
INQUIREManabu Hasegawawas born in 1973, in Tokyo, Japan.
Hasegawa creates real to life three-dimensional works using pencil and paper. With the theme of ‘weapons’ pistols and automatic rifles are displayed as if they are in a gun shop. Get up close to the artworks to see that the shading is achieved using lead pencil on paper. One of the attractions of these works is that they look both three-dimensional and also like a flat picture.
The insides are hollow so the serious atmosphere associated with them being weapons is only superficial. If you imagine crushing them you realise that they would smash into pieces in one go. Because the fragility of Hasegawa’s artwork it is fleeting one cannot help but feel affection for it.
EDUCATION
2000
Graduated from Tama Art University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
‘M60’ | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY
‘VOLTA 11’ | MARKTHALLE, Basel
2010
‘Yashima’ | Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
2004
‘Exhibition’ | Tatsuno Museum of Art, Nagano
2002
‘Exhibition’ | FADs Art Space, Tokyo
2000
‘Exhibition’ | Gallery FRESCA, Tokyo
‘Exhibition’ | Sudo Art Museum, Toky
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
ART in PARK HOTEL TOKYO 2017 | PARK HOTEL TOKYO, Tokyo
2014
‘New Visions of the West’ | Whitespace Contemporary, America
ART ASPEN 2014 | America
2013
ART SAN DIEGO | America
2012
ART SHOW BUSAN | South Korea
SOFA | New York
ART STAGE SINGAPORE | Singapore
‘XYZ’ | Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo
2011
SOFA | Chicago
PULSE | Los Angeles
KIAF | South Korea
ART TAIPEI | Taiwan
ART FAIR KYOTO | Hotel Monterey Kyoto, Kyoto
ART STAGE SINGAPORE | Singapore
2010
Taro Okamoto Award for Cont. Art | Taro Okamoto Museum
2005
Casoria International Contemporary Art Museum | Italy
2002
Tatsuno Museum of Art | Nagano
2001
Kirin Art Award | Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoy
AWARDS
2012
SOFA New York | Best Artwork in Show
2010
13th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemp. Art | Special Prize
2001
Kirin Art Award 2001 | Excellence Award Second Runner-up