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Artwork Description

Cascading colours coalesce, drip and unite within the atmospheric movements of Kiyo Hasegawa’s paintings, creating an aesthetically complex inner world brimming between tension, flux, harmony and serenity. Using the traditional materials of Nihonga, Hasegawa captures the movements of the heart, pouring within her pigments the raw beauty of nature coloured by imaginary world within. One of the more recent additions to Kanata’s growing roster of Japanese painters, Hasegawa has quickly become one of the standout stars on the international art fair circuit, with sold-out works at each and every turn since her Kanata debut in 2019. The atmospheric qualities within negative space and what lies within and beyond are Hasegawa’s thematic muses, and what is left to the imagination within her paintings is both mystic, divine and poignant. The minimal simplicity of her compositions masks her strongest attribute: the ability to express the aesthetics of “yohaku”, or the space between things. Indeed, it is the silence found within her negative spaces which heighten and accentuate her Nihonga works to epic proportions.