Hideaki Kawashima

Drawing

€750

Artwork

Edition of 4070.0 (H) × 57.0 (W) cm

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Hideaki Kawashima paints soothing, surreal renditions of the ever-ambiguous human experience. His work sits within the Superflat movement, contributing to the establishment of rich new legacies for manga and anime-influenced figuration.

Our debut collaboration, Drawing, is based on an original work painted shortly after the artist’s mother passed away. The young subject – “in the most brilliant period of her life” – embodies his layered ruminations on life and death.

“I remember painting with extreme concentration, and it is indeed a work that I feel a strong sense of attachment to.”

Framing

Prints can be ordered float-mounted on an off-white backing board in a dark walnut wood frame, fitted with UV plexiglass for protection.

Medium

Archival pigment print overlaid with 9 screenprint layers on 300gsm Canson Moulin du Roy watercolour paper with hand-torn edges.

Certificate of Authenticity

Arrives with a certificate of authenticity.

Finishing

Lower right corner individually signed and numbered by the artist, lower left corner dated.

Release date

February 11, 2022

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Portrait photo of Hideaki Kawashima in a black sweater

Hideaki Kawashima4 collaborationsHideaki Kawashima uses portraiture to expose the ambiguities of human life. Rendered in subdued palettes of seamlessly-blended oils, his wide-eyed characters express a spectrum of emotions: fear, desire, angst, longing. Said emotions, however, are never singular or overt. Similarly, androgynous facial features set gender identities in flux and small ghost-like creatures symbolise the blurred boundary between physical and spiritual realms. Playful touches of folklore, mythology and surrealism surface throughout, drawing influence from painters such as Mark Ryden and Pierre et Gilles. Having emerged in 1990s Japan alongside artists like Yoshitomo Nara, Kawashima’s work sits within the Superflat movement, contributing to the establishment of rich new legacies for manga and anime-influenced figuration.

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