The World of Kazuharu Hanada Exhibition 2 Views taken by 360°Camera

○The World of Kazuharu Hanada “Dialogue with Nature” Exhibition Views taken by 360° camera

Exhibition Space 1: Standing still on the waterside
The sea was the special motif for Hanada.
By tracing up his family tree, he is related to the Hanada family which was the boss of local fishermen and built “The Former Hanada Fishers Residence”, flourished in herring fishing in the Meiji period and designated as an important cultural asset now. Hanada was proud of his root and thought that the bounty of sea nurtured it.
This exhibition space traces the scenery of the sea near Otaru where Hanada often visited and loved, and displays various works which were born there along with the documents based on these works.

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Exhibition Space 2-1: The Scenery around Him
After completing the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts, and then returning from Europe, he worked on the series consisting of four colored-fields on the theme of something familiar and in front of his eyes. Hanada’s art style, subsequently developed into various manner characterized as combinations of colorful fields, maximally simplified forms and so on, seems to have already been completed at that time.
2-2: Scenery expanding from the night to the morning
The works which expressed various things around Hanada by using squares in four colors, had gradually expanded, and then developed into the works with many squares. This style of the works continued throughout his life. Later, the series of To Forest , started which is dark as the night and violent in manner. After this dynamic pictorial expression created in his 30’s, the beautiful works with the motif of nature were developed, which could be said to be his masterpieces.

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Exhibition Space 3: Portrait, Family and Scenery
Hanada is an artist who loved the nature of Hokkaido all his life and created works with the motifs of many landscapes. At the same time, he made various interesting works in each period on the days he spent with his family, and on the meeting with many people including the friends from school, students whom he taught as an art teacher, artist friends, cenacles (we could call), with whom he worked to promote abstract paintings in Hokkaido, fans of his works.
In this exhibition space, the representation of portrait in each period from his childhood to later years, the works of landscapes in familiar towns and the materials about literary expressions are displayed, which will explore the inside of his works.

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Exhibition Space 4: Reconstructing Nature
Hanada had created many works based on landscapes of nature. His early realistic painting style had changed and progressed toward completion as large, simple, and beautiful works.Hanada’s works based on the theme of landscapes are not the ones created using imaginary images in his brain, but the ones that the realistic landscapes, actually seen with his eyes, are reconstructed and completed by himself.
In this exhibition space, together with the finished works, whose rough sketches, drawings, idea drawings, photos, etc. are displayed. The landscapes seen by Hanada are calculated in minute detail and the rough sketches are created with a compass and a ruler. The organic image of nature is geometrically treated and reconstructed. If you look at this process of making, you will understand that Hanada was an artist who created the works not by senses and images, but by considering compositions and color combinations intellectually.

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Exhibition Space 5

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Exhibition Space 6: Humor and Poesy
Hanada’s geometric painting style, it could be said “cool painting style”, had gradually changed in his later years. Before that, visual landscapes, people, materials and so on were reconstructed into his own colorful and simple style, however, in 2000’s, he started to create works which make people feel nostalgic, romantic, poetic and humorous. It is extremely wonderful that many works filled with memories and affections were created in his final stage as an artist and it could be said that the works in this period would be memorized as the goal of Hanada’s art for long time.

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