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Kana Hasegawa - woodblock prints


Wings of freedom ( Thumb princess series ) ( 71 × 57 cm )


Good beans , bad beans ( Ashes fogging series ) ( 50 × 50 cm )


Golden shoes ( Ashes fogging series ) ( 50 × 50 cm )

Artist will be in the Gallery on the opening day.

From the past onwards many artists continued, not giving weight to their own sense of Beauty, to picture the female figure as a Goddess or Whore based on Western opinion, without even wondering the distinction of East or West.

The same was caused by the prints of beautiful women from the heydays of the Ukiyoe, even capturing Monet, van Gogh and the likes.

In the works of Kana Hasegawa , the lines are delicate, elegant and printed in gorgeous colours, as if they are illustrations but in reality the works are deeply inspired by the traditional works of Ukiyoe.

However they differ from the beautiful women images, Hasegawa is not picturing the women out of a sense of the woman being the embodiment of beauty.

Expressing the defenceless limbs is done out of the wish of a woman to picture all as it is.

Images stripped from ideals, women standing on their own feet and because of this one can truly say these images of beautiful women are perfectly present day.

( Translated from Hanga art NO161 , Women of“ Ukiyoe of the 21st century ”)


Kana Hasegawa - woodblock prints

Date:
2013 September 1(Sun)-14(Sat)
10:30 AM - 6:30 PM No closing in this term
Place:
Zokyudo Gallery
604-8091 1fl, Nishi-iru, Kawaramachi, Oike-dori, Nakagyo-ku,Kyoto-shi,Kyoto