Jun Hasegawa
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Jun Hasegawa (b.1969 Mie, Japan)
Jun Hasegawa was born in Mie[1], Japan and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and Goldsmith's College[2]. He lives and works in London.
"In an interview with Stephen Hepworth for the British Council exhibition Tailsliding in 2001, Hasegawa described her work: "I never thought I was going to be a painter, I started by studying graphics. I tried so many different things. The 'cut out' was the end of that process but also the beginning. The cut out was something interesting. It has so many different things; the three dimensionality combined with the flat photographic element. The illusion the figure has... it's not painting a portrait or making a sculpture, but something in-between. There's a strangeness. It comes from installation, working in a space, it's a different world, for example as with a computer game, psychologically as well as spatially. I am not interested in making up characters though, it is more the desire that I want to be in a space. I think lots of people are obsessed by beauty. Lots of artists here want to make something ugly. Their ugliness can be beautiful, but I am doing the complete opposite, my background is different. With the cut outs, they bring their world into our world. Very beautiful people with very beautiful lives, and we aspire to them. But they are not really real in our world. They are always slightly apart, perhaps on a parallel plain."
Excerpts from Britishcouncil.org
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[edit] Education
1991-92 Wimbledon School of Art (Foundation Course)
1993-95 Goldsmiths College, London. B.A. (Hons)
[edit] Exhibitions
[edit] Solo exhibitions
2002 Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo
2001 1Galleria S.A.L.E.S. Rome
1999 Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo
[edit] Selected Group Exhibition
2004
- "Line and Colour", James Hyman Fine Art, London
2003
- "New Generation Japanes Painters", Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,Hiroshima
- "The Japanese Experience", Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
2002
- "A World out of joint", 20.21 Galerie, Essen Germany
- "The Japanese Experience - Inevitable", Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal Germany (Cat.)
- "The Ink Jetty", Neon Gallery, London
- "Private Luxury", Manno Art Museum, Osaka
- "Intimacy", The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester
2001
- "Tailsliding", The British Council Touring Exhibition, 2001-2003 (Cat.)
- "In Fumo - Art, Comics, Communication",Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy(Cat.)
- "Yoshitomo Nara, Hiroshi Sugito, Jun Hasegawa", Galerie Micheal Zink, Munich Germany
2000
- "Continental Shift", Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen (Cat.)
- "Magic", Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
1999
- "Julian Opie, Matti Braun, Jun Hasegawa, Paul Morrison, Alessandro Raho", Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
- "Heart&Soul", 60 Long Lane, London
- "Untitled", Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
- "this was now", Travelling Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
1998
- "Dumbpop", The Jerwood Space, London
- "Die Young Stay Pretty", ICA, London (Cat.)
- "Feeringbury VIII - Cultivated", Feeringbury Manor, Colchester
- "Printemps", Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London
1997
- "Playing Dead", Spacex Gallery, Exeter
- "Avatar", Entwistle Gallery, London
- "Multislot", The Basement, London
- "Some Kind of Heaven", Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany / South London Gallery, London / John Hansard Gallery, Southampton /Cornerhouse, Manchester (Cat.)
1996
- "Physiognomical Corpus", One in the other, London
- "How will we behave?", Robert Prime, London
- "Die Yuppie Scum", Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
- "New Contemporaries", Tate Gallery, Liverpool / Camden Art Centre, London (Cat.)
- "Face To Face", Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1995
- "Gothic", Lost in Space, London
- "White Trash", Lost in Space, London
- "Multiple Orgasm", Lost in Space, London
- "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner", Lost in Space, London
- Lost in Space, curated and organised by Martin Maloney
[edit] Projects
1997
- Installation "Wrong time, wrong place" June - December (Habitat, London)
- Limited edition prints, "Sunday afternoon" (Habitat, London)
