The small triangular room will be a space to welcome the multifaceted local community to curate and introduce exhibitions.
For the celebratory opening exhibition, Toga Aoyama welcomes Gallery Naruyama and gallery owner Akimitsu Naruyama to showcase a collection of paintings by Sadao Hasegawa.
This exhibition features 12 paintings created in the early 1970s at the outset of Hasegawa’s career. In addition to portrayals of gallant male figures representative of Hasegawa’s work, paintings of women made in dreamy blues, mystical purples, and sublime monochromes are also exhibited. Another distinctive feature of his works during this time is the recurring motifs of snakes painted as if to portray the erosion of the attractive human figure.
From romantic works created with the influence of psychedelics to pieces painted with his admiration towards foreign lands such as Africa, Sadao Hasegawa’s paintings are full of humor and power indicative of the 1970s.
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