Sadao Hasegawa LINGA

2000.12.1 - 12.20

Aside from a few, intermittent appearances in gay magazines, Sadao Hasegawa's monograph “PARADISE VISION” (1996 Kochi Studio) has been his only introduction in Japan. Gaining much attention overseas, with publications in the UK and numerous contributions to magazines in the US and Europe, Hasegawa's works have not been done justice here in his home country. With great influences from Edo-Period Shungas (erotic art), his obsession and display of beauty in the male body and sex combined with Asian motifs result in a truly concentrated representation of eroticism.











SADAO HASEGAWA

1950s

Born in Tokai area of Japan in the 1950's. Starts to take up drawing on his own.

1973	Exhibition Sadao Hasegawa's Alchemism-Meditation for 1973 in Tokyo, Japan. Presents oil painting, collages, drawings and sculptures.

1990	Publishes SADAO HASEGAWA from G.M.P Co. England. Refuses numerous offers to exhibit overseas, not wanting to distribute his works abroad. Starts to wander around Indonesia and Thailand.

1996	Paradise Vision published from Kochi Studio.

1999	Dies in Bankok, Thailand.

2000	exhibition Exhibition LINGA at Gallery Naruyama, due to the request of the family of Sadao, whom found a will written by Sadao before his death.

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