Takeshi Hamanaka
濱中武
Takeshi Hamanaka’s bronze sculptures are physical manifestations of sentiments. Hamanaka has reduced the bronze into forms with supple round contours and smooth surfaces. The soft abstract forms mirror that of the sublime but ultimately the material the work is mad of is a durable solid forcing the viewer to adjust how they physically relate to the works. The titles, such as Joy, Survival, and Mask of the Wind, coerce the viewer even closer to identifying the awe-inspiring content within the works.
Takeshi Hamanaka was born in 1975 in Yokohama, Japan and lives and works in Kawasaki, Tokyo and Vancouver, Canada. He has had solo shows in Canada and Japan. He was the award receiver at the 2006 Soukei Exhibition Japan’s Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
