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Biography
Hachiro Kanno is a Japanese painter who works and lives in Paris, France.
He was born in Tochigi-Ken, in Japan, in 1944. Drawn to western culture, he arrived in France in 1968 to complete his studies at the Paris School of Fine Arts. In 1979, he moved into the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre and has been there ever since. Coming from a long line of traditional calligraphers and raised in the Shinto religion, Kanno transposes timeless themes into abstract, in a more up-to-date and universal way organized around the positive and the negative. There are more than 130 solo exhibitions to his credit, mainly in Europe, the US and Japan.
Land Arts, performances, conferences, demonstrations, direction and stage setting of operas, Zen space design…
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Education
- 1972 : Graduate from School of Fine Art, Paris, France
Solo exhibitions
- 2024: “Fragments of Japan #2“, Château de Lavardens, Lavardens (France)
- 2024: Permanescence, Tea ceremony, Ryuseiken Tea House, Tokyo (Japan)
- 2024: Permanescence, Nichido Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2021: “Fragments of Japan“, Art Center in Gascony, Lavardens Castle (France)
- 2019: Solo show, In Arte Veritas Gallery, Angers (France)
- 2015: Permanescence, Kunstation-Kleinsassen, Kleinsassen (Germany)
- 2015: “L’Encre chez les Kanno”, Tenri Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2014: Permanescence, Nichido Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2012: Permanescence, Nichido Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2012: Permanescence, Atelier 28 Gallery, Lyon (France)
- 2010: Permanescence, Saint Florent-le-Veil abbey (France)
- 2010: Permanescence, Nichido Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2009: Permanescence, installation & perfomance, Tenri J-D Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2008: Permanescence, Nichido Gallery, Paris (France)
- 2007: Permanescence, Installation at the 3rd Biennale of Issy (France)
- 2006: Permanescence, Nichido Gallery, Paris, France & “The Art of Ink“, conference and performance, Nauplie Festival (Greece)
- 2003: Permanescence, C. Pleser Gallery, Munich (Germany)
- 2002: “L’Art de l’encre ” Performance, with the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and the Japanese Embassy in Tunisia, Carthage (Tunisia)
- 1999: Permanescence , Art Passerelle Center, Brest (France)
- 1997: Permanescence, Comic works, with the Japanese Embassy, Ploneour-Lanvern (France)
- 1991: Permanescence, Cultart Gallery, Montreal (Canada)
Group exhibitions
- 2018: « Connection », group exhibition, ONE WAY Gallery, Angers (France)
- 2016: “Soirée Artistics”, group exhibition, NESLE Gallery , Paris (France)
- 2015: “KANNO HA-TEN”, Espace Culturel Bertin Poiree , Paris (France)
- 2014: “Japon – Regards croisés“, group show, Marianne Brand Gallery, Carouge-Genève (Switzerland)
- 2011: “Un Souffle venu d’Asie”, group exhibition, Centre d’art contemporain, Abbaye de Beaulieu (France)
- 2009: “SENSAI- Weiss die Reinheit der Faorm in der Japanischen Kunst” Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg , Salzburg (Austria)
- 2008: “Permanescence” (inv.d’honneur) Lions International club,Saint-Denis Basilique (France)
- 2007: “Une beauté violante à en perdre la raison”, La Biennale d’ Issy, Museé de la carte à jouer , Issy les moulineaux , (France)
- 2007: “PACA Patrimoine III”, l’Orbière à St Georges-des-Sept-Voies (France)
- 2005: “Grands formats”, PACA, Angers (France)
- 2004 : “Distance”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya (Japan)
Collections
- Museum of Mantova, Italy
- Museum of Bern, Switzerland
- Museum of Ethnography of Geneva, Switzerland
- Museum of Fine Arts of Nuremberg, Germany
- Museum of Minaminasu, Japan
- Museum of Modern Arts of Montreal, Canada
- Ministry of Culture collection, Tunis, Tunisia
Articles
Calligraphy and contemporary art: Hachiro Kanno (1/3)
Three of the gallery's artists derive their pictorial and/or philosophical resources from calligraphy. In this series of 3 articles we have asked...
Hachiro Kanno: A German summer
The Kunststation Kleinsassen is putting on an exhibition dedicated to Japanese artist Hachiro Kanno through to the end of August 2015. One weaves...
Hachiro Kanno Sculptor
Since this summer, the Daiouji temple in Japan boasts a sculpture by artist Hachiro Kanno who very kindly accepted to reply to a few questions about...
