About the Exhibition

From the exhibition series "Worldwide Artists of Asia with Continuous Evaluation from Today's perspective" that Karuizawa New Art Museum focused on the artists who should be paid attention now from our own point of view, we will continue to introduce the painter, Kazuharu Hanada, who based in Hokkaido and established his on abstract expressions.

In 1946 Kazuharu Hanada (1946-2017) was born in Sapporo city in Hokkaido. In 1965, he entered Tokyo University of the Arts where he studied under Ryohei Koiso (1903-1988). After he completed the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts in 1971, he returned to Sapporo in 1974 and then continued his art works in Hokkaido until his death in 2017.
After going back home, Hanada who had tried geometric paintings since he was in school, worked on paintings with bright surfaces composed of squares. After a while, he created an expression in which nature in Hokkaido and his daily life are picked up as theme and their essence was abstracted into simple forms.
In his later years, Hanada changed his way of representation reminiscent of stories filled with humors and lyricism.
As a sequel to the exhibition, "The World of Kazuharu Hanada"(held during 2020.11.14－2021.3.28)undisclosed works that wew impossible to be shown in the previous exhibition will be presented with a deeper study of creativity in Hanada's works.

How was he working on the real landscape before his eyes? the intention of his creation, the way of thinking, the process, the various motifs that he was interested in, all of those will be on display with his drawings and pictures in this exhibition.
We hope you will take this opportunity to enjoy it.


【The World of Kazuharu Hanada- Dialogue with Nature Online Viewing】
Please enjoy discovering our exhibition rooms in Museum from all directions with click and drag!

From here