HIDEAKI KAWASHIMA
b. 1969, JapanHideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo Zokai University in 1991. Kawashima’s paintings are filled with luminous, full red lips and large, marble-like eyes.
Following an ardent tradition of portraiture, the artist is interested in the features of people that are burned into our memories. The works have ventured into the gothic, abstracted, with contours of balloon-shaped heads and wisps of hair. the figures are delicate and dainty, but they have been dealt Brueghelian delights to arrest the roving eye. Kawashima, who studied with Yoshimoto Nara served a two-year stint as a buddhist monk.
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