Susumu Hasegawa has created an extraordinary body of work. Shape and color materialize the foundation of his thought. Using photography, acrylic and ink, Hasegawa renders a bounty of colorful forms and words, only to tear or cut them apart in order to revive them as collage compositions. The results are extraordinary. At first we may see a mishmash of paper, but exploring deeper we find a hidden logic and subtle beauty. Textures, planes, dynamic angles and brilliant colors combine to tell a story of space, a refutation of void. Various lines of paper overlap each other, and guide our eyes around the picture. Beautiful disks and spirals rise from the background while rulers measuring various increments explore the boundaries of the composition. Hasegawa’s art has connotations that interact with our imagination as if mysterious craftsmen are constructing plans beyond our comprehension.
For over thirty years, Hasegawa’s work has been collected, published, and exhibited throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. He lives in Kyoto.