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until 08.11. | #3965ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar presents from 13 September 2023 the solo exhibition „Fragile Beauty – The Age of Uncertainty“ with works of the artist Hana Usui.
The Japanese artist Hana Usui, born in Tokyo in 1974, moved to Vienna in 2000. With this move, she opened up new areas of expression based on her earlier cultural imprint. This concerns the relationship between oil drawing and ink painting and, related to this, the way in which the drawn and the painted are combined. In addition, in recent years there have been an increasing number of diverse photographic processes and installation works.
The artist’s work has increasingly focused on political issues and the dangers of our time, also triggered by the reactor catastrophe in Fukushima. Based on her artistic language, which she has developed over the years, she approaches these difficult issues in a more mediated, indirect way, giving them a new visual expression. Hana Usui’s delicate works do not offer simple solutions, are not apodictic, rather they point to a fragility, provoke reflection and open up a principled, existential level.
Participation in important survey exhibitions, for example in the Metropolitan Art Museum in Tokyo, in the Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg, in the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden as well as in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen Berlin and expert contributions in various publications. Works in the Albertina Vienna, the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, the Berlinische Galerie, the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, among others.
Opening : Wednesday, 13 September 2023, from 11 a.m.
Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 13 September until Wednesday, 25 October 2023 – ATTENTION: – extended until Wednesday, 08. November 2023
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Caption title: Hana Usui, Electric Shadows, 2023, oil, ink and photography, two layers, 40 x 29.5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Dittmar
Exhibition Hana Usui – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
