TAKASHI HARA

By combining the visual arts (sculpture and painting) with music, sound, song and poetry, Takashi Hara stages the multiple identities of living beings inhabited by complex feelings and memories and pays special tribute to the departure of his once musician grandfather.

Takashi Hara immerses us in a play of writing and vivid colors projected onto the canvas with energy and expressiveness. The work has a ternary rhythm: the melancholy of the past, the torments and joys of the present and the hope of a future to be designed together.

His animal avatar, the pig, is for him the universal spiritual allegory of the animal-man. As the philosopher Denis Viennet points out, “becoming an animal is not about imitating or doing the animal. Becoming an animal would rather be a work on oneself requiring an asceticism”. It is this inner path, visual and acoustic, redemptive and outlet, that the artist wishes to take us on. Pigs the way with repentance and love, peace and benevolence, respect and listening.

Can you hear it? The pigs whisper a poem to us. Let us listen to them.