Hakuseki Iwai
岩井博石
「刻み」を一貫して表現方法とする作風で、対象を見つめるその目は優しい。
日本古来の版木のような桂の板面に、彫刻刀で存在を刻み込む。
刻まれ、表出した存在そのものが作品となる。
イメージは、紙の上ではなく見る者の心に刷られる。
その精緻さと濃密さは、長年磨かれた篆刻技術の上に成立している。
ー“Kizami” is the process of carving images onto a wood block with a chisel, just like drawing with a brush. The wood block is made of Japanese katsura tree, which is suitable for fine carving. Instead of drawing a sketch on it in advance, Hakuseki directly carve the image he had in mind. Therefore, all pieces are one-of-a-kind original pieces. "Woman," "Sitting person," "Mother and child,” “Family” with the theme of human love, and also “Flower” and “Fuji” with nature theme are drawn by carving lines over and over again to express their "existence", and life is breathed in.
Born in Osaka, Japan.
Hakuseki Iwai is a seal carving artist and western-style painter.
He studied calligraphy and seal carving under Shujo Kataoka, mastered Qin Han seals, and discovered his own unique method under the influence of Zhao Zhiqian and Wu Changxian.
He started to exhibit mainly overseas and has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the British World Exhibition in 1987. Received the first Houou Encouragement Award in recognition of cultural exchange through art. Since then, he has been exhibited in China, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal, Italy, and other countries. In 2003, a stone monument, which is calligraphy work, was erected at China-Japan Friendship Museum in Guilin, China, and in 2004 his work "Sanka Suicho Kaichiki” is collected in the British Museum.
He also studied western-style painting under Toshiya Inoue. Also as a painter, he won numerous awards in art contests including Grand prix at the “All Kansai Art Exhibition”, a series of self-portraits “One Day”.
Fusing Japanese, Asian and western art, Hakuseki will continue to show us his unique pieces of Kizami-e.
この世に[ 生 ]を受けた全ての[ モノ]を安直な物語性を排し、 限られた色彩の中で、いかに画面に定着出来るかと苦闘の日々 です。「ひと」や身の回りで目にする「花」「大根」「かぼちゃ」 などのモチーフに命を宿らせるが如く画面に線を刻み込んでいく。 その[モノ]の存在を表出すべく制作しております。
Exhibition
2026 Affordable Art Fair Brussels (, 2025, 2024, 2023 Belgium)
2025 Affordable Art Fair Vienna (Austria)
Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam (2024, 2023, 2022, 2017 Netherlands)
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (,2024 Germany)
2024 Knokke Art Fair (,2023 Belgium)
Arte Padova (Italy)
Kobe Art Marche (, 2023,2022,2018,2017,2016 Japan)
Hybrid art fair Madrid (, 2023, 2019 Spain)
2023 Affordable Art Fair Stockholm (, 2016 Stockholm, Sweden)
Art Market Budapest (, 2022,2019, 2018,2017 Budapest, Hungary)
NEJA-ism Exhibition (Galleria Immaginaria Firenze)
Art Fair Asia Fukuoka (, 2022,2019,2018,2016 Fukuoka, Japan)
2022 “NEJA-ISM 2022” (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan)
2021 Solo Exhibition (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
“NEJA-ISM 2021” (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Japan)
2020 Solo Exhibition (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
Affordable Art Fair Milano (Milano, Italy)
2019 ART EXPO 2019 (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
Affordable Art Fair Battersea (London, UK)
ROMA ART WEEK (Italy)
The Others Torino (Italy)
2018 CURVE vs LAPPING 2 man show Hakuseki iwai & Koji Minami (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
Art nagoya (Japan)
1 sqm exhibition (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
Art Nordic (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Lucca Art Fair (Italy)
Solo exhibition (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
2018 YIA Art Fari (Paris, France)
SYSTEMA BIENNALE 2018 (Museo Casa Natale di Michelangelo, Italy)
Art Riga (Latvia)
2016 ART EXPO OSAKA (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
ART ON PAPER (Systema Gallery Osaka, Japan)
2014 Solo (GALLERY SHIMADA)
Solo (GALLERY CREATE)
2015 Solo (GALLERY SHIMADA)
Solo (GALLERY CREATE)
【Award】
2012 Kokuten exhibition “Associate Member Excellence Award"
2009 Kokuten exhibition “ Newcomer Award”
2008 Kokuten exhibition award
2007 All Kansai art contest Yomiuri newspaper award
2005 All Kansai art contest 2nd prize
2004 All Kansai art contest Grand prix
1999 Kokuten exhibition award
1998 Japanese contemporary contest award
1997 Hokuriku Chubi contest
1997 All Kansai art contest prized KASAKU
1993 Chu Asai art contest award
1992 Himeji art contest award
1991 Tokyo central art contest award
【Collection】
2004 Sanka Suicho Kaichiki” collected in the British Museum
2003 Stone monument, which is calligraphy work
China-Japan Friendship Museum in Guilin, China
国画会会員 日本美術家連盟会員
1965 大阪府生まれ
1991 東京セントラル美術館油絵大賞展 出品
1992 姫路市美術展 教育委員
1993 浅井忠記念賞展 出品
1997 全関西美術展 佳作 （98 佳作）
1997 北陸中日美術展 佳作
1998 現代日本美術展 出品 (毎日新聞社主催)
1999 国展 出品（以後毎年出品）
2004 全関西美術展 第1席 （05 2席）
2004 関西国展 関西国画賞
2007 全関西美術展 読売新聞大阪本社省
2008 国展 国画賞
2009 国展 新人賞 準会員推挙
2012 国展 準会員優作賞 会員推挙