Exhibition Information

Hiroyuki Hamada Untitled Painting 027
2016 Acrylic on charcoal 121.9 x 152.4 cm
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Hiroyuki Hamada Untitled Painting 022
2016 Acrylic and charcoal 101.6 x 152.4 cm
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Hiroyuki Hamada Untitled Painting 011
2015 Acrylic, charcoal, enamel, graphite and oil 45.7 x 61 cm
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Hiroyuki Hamada Untitled Painting 004
2015 Acrylic, charcoal, enamel, graphite and oil 61 x 45.7 cm
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			Gana Art is pleased to announce the opening of Japanese-born sculptor Hiroyuki Hamada’s solo exhibition. Currently based in East Hampton, New York, the artist creates abstract forms and imagery mainly with the mediums of sculpture and painting. Hamada’s work has been recently shown at the Bookstein Projects, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and Guild Hall in New York. At this first exhibition of Hamada’s work in Korea, Gana Art wishes to introduce the artist’s diverse oeuvre featuring paintings and sculptures created between 2001 and 2021. Starting his career as a painter, Hamada began incorporating non-traditional painting materials such as enamel, resin, and wax in his work and naturally became committed to both painting and sculpture. This use of industrial materials along with seemingly machine-made curvy lines and intricate repetitive patterns are evocative of mechanical civilization and the scientific development of the modern age. However, the worn-out effects that the artist adds to the surface as well as purely abstract forms without specific stories or symbols create an ambivalent, uncanny atmosphere where the unknown times of the past and present are overlapped. Reminiscent of a part of a spacecraft or a human body as well as daily objects or animals, Hamada’s work brings to mind different mental imageries, blurring the boundary between the familiar and the unfamiliar. Through this exhibition that offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the artistic world of Hamada in Korea, Gana Art hopes to enable the viewer to have a pure aesthetic experience and synesthetic response that the artist’s work triggers.

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