Toshihiro Hamano : Beauty of Synthesis, Meditation & Traces (Ma)

6 Sep-19 Sep 2016

Overview

Toshihiro Hamano studied at Tama Art University, after which he founded the art group RYU, through which he sought to develop exchanges as well as cultural bridges between Japan and other countries. After participating in the 1991 Japan Festival in the UK, he exhibited widely throughout Europe, including at the Japanese Pavillion at the Saville World Expo in 1992 and a major retrospective exhibition travelling to Versailles, the EU Parliament and UNESCO Headquarters. He was granted an audience with the Pope in 2000 and was awarded the L’order des Lettres in France in 2015 and the Foreign Minister’s Commendations in Japan in 2016. In the past 25 years, Hamano has gone on to exhibit at major cultural venues across Europe.