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Soichi Hasegawa
Soichi Hasegawa was born in Yaizu (Japan) in 1929. He folloew studies to the Kokuga Institute in Tokyo. He comes to Europe at the beginning of the Sixties and settles down in Paris. He discovers etching in the "Atelier 17" set in by collective exhibitions relating to etching in France and abroad. He gains his first important prize of etching in 1986 with the International exhibition of Come. His first personal exhibition is organized in Tokyo in 1957. Then many exhibitions around the world will follow (Paris, Stockholm, Melbourne, Brussels, Geneva, Frankfurt, London, etc.). Hasegawa's art belongs both to abstraction and figuration, and gathers Far-Eastern calligraphy, traditional symbolism of the forms and the colors, and Western new expressions. On colored "tachist" background, the artist etches in white on decorative graphic inspired from the popular Japanese imagery. He is a painter mixing different technique and becomes famous primarily with his etching technique. Soichi Hasegawa's art is present in many private collections and museums. |
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