![]() In 1973 he debuted his works on his first exhibition "Sadao Hasegawa's Alchemism-Meditation for 1973" in Tokyo, Japan, presents oil painting, collages, drawings and sculptures. Travels to India during his 20's and starts to take up drawing on his own. ![]() Hasegawa was born in the Tōkai area of Japan in the 1950s. With great influences from Edo-Period shunga (erotic art), his obsession and display of beauty in the male body and sex combined with Asian motifs result in a truly concentrated representation of eroticism. Gaining much attention overseas, with publications in the UK and numerous contributions to magazines in the US and Europe, Hasegawa's works have not been done justice in his home country. ![]() While focusing on depictions of muscular male physique, Hasegawa often turns to extreme sexual situations, bondage and SM themes, which, in the context of his stylized fantasy world, attain a nearly sacral intensity.Īside from a few, intermittent appearances in gay magazines, Hasegawa Sadao's monograph Paradise Vision (1996 Kochi Studio) has been the only introduction of this talented artist in Japan. His work is notable for superb technical skills, elaborate fantastic settings (occasionally reminiscent of William Blake), and for incorporating Japanese, Indian, South-East Asian and African mythology. Sadao Hasegawa (長谷川 サダオ, Hasegawa Sadao, 1950 – November 20, 1999) was a Japanese graphic artist specializing in male erotica. ![]()
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