"Horizon de l'événement(Ⅲ) Horizon of events(Ⅲ)"
2019
mage size : 15.8 x 15.8 inch
edition : 30
technique : silkscreen on paper
The Universe Around Me
Looking at this high and clear sky, I strongly feel that I am alive in the universe. I am not an expert in scientific physics, but I feel the rhythm of the universe in everything. This rhythm is also present in the cosmos swaying on my balcony. The word "cosmos" comes from the Greek language. Originally, it meant order and harmony. It seems to have gotten its name from the orderly arrangement of its petals. It also came to mean the universe because of its orderliness and unity. Cosmos also has the meaning of beauty. Beauty lives in order. I am drawing with these thoughts in mind today. By the way, the opposite of the cosmos is chaos. The earth is now in chaos. The only way out of this crisis is to remember the rhythm of the universe, to touch each other, to share, and to love each other.
Masahiro Kasai
1978 Graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University and went to France. 1981 Returned to Japan
1982 Printmaking "New Artists of Expectation" Grand Prize Exhibition, Grand Prize
1984 Seibu Museum of Art Grand Prize Exhibition of Prints
1986 Honorable Mention, Japan-France Contemporary Art Exhibition (Tokyo-Paris)
1991 Ljubliana International Print Biennale (Yugoslavia)
1992 Osaka Contemporary Art Center Contemporary Print Grand Prize Exhibition, Grand Prize (Osaka, Japan)
1997 Osaka Print Triennial Exhibition (Osaka, Japan)
2000 Krakow International Print Triennial Exhibition (Poland) 2003, 2006, 2012 also
2007 Guanlan International Print Biennale (China) 2009, 2011
2010 Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Prints at Chikotin Museum (Israel)
2012 Yunnan International Print Exhibition (China)
Other awards and solo exhibitions
Collection
Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, etc.