Ryosuke Hara: Shanshui - Ribs
hangzhou
August 7 – September 6, 2026
Hunsand Space (Hangzhou) is pleased to present Shanshui — Ribs, a solo exhibition by Japanese artist Ryosuke Hara, at its new space in Unit 802, Building 12, OoEli. Taking "the body as landscape（Shanshui）" as its point of entry, the exhibition brings together over ten works in oil on canvas and ceramics. Hara brings the daily discipline associated with the Kegon monk Myōe Shōnin into dialogue with contemporary notions of artistic temporality, unfolding a meditation on the deep connections between human beings and the natural world.
Artist: Ryosuke Hara
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"It is as though landscape seeps into my body — and perhaps my body seeps into the landscape in turn. In those moments, might they transform into spirits or apparitions, appearing before us? And even when you and I gaze upon the same landscape, does it not become something entirely different once it enters each of our bodies?" It is with these questions that Ryosuke Hara has advanced his practice in this exhibition.
He decided to make "landscape" his theme — not any particular or exceptional place, but the utterly ordinary scenery surrounding his studio: landscapes so commonplace they have seeped into the body almost without the artist noticing.In practice, when Hara applies oil paint to canvas, he rarely layers. The thinly painted surface, luminous and direct, retains the mark of each brushstroke — a trace of the bodily exchange between artist and canvas. For Hara, landscape enters the body, and is released through the body. That is painting.
What the artist holds most dear is this: no straining after novelty, no display of technique — only sincerity. To sincerely translate what is seen into paint, because he trusts that something of his "everyday" will surface from within it. What Hara truly wishes to convey is the everyday itself — for he believes that the everyday carries a force capable of reaching across any world. Like the branches and grasses just outside his studio window: ordinary, lived-with, sometimes barely noticed, yet long since mutually permeated, fused and embedded in the body like ribs. Such is life; such is making. Both exist within that dailiness, and through a steadfast commitment to time, they pass invisibly through concept and meaning.
This permeation and release extends, too, into the realm of cultural exchange. As Hara himself has said: "Many of the sources of Japanese art flow from China — they have long since seeped into my body. And now, where will the work that my body 'breathes out' seep into next?"
Ryosuke Hara, Born in 1975 in Kanagawa, Japan. He was graduated from Tama Art University, MFA in 2002. Now he lives in Tokyo.
Solo Exhibitions:
"Shanshui-Ribs", Hunsand Space, Hangzhou, China (2026); "Sagiko and Funako: In The Presence of Light", The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Hiratsuka, Japan (2025); "Char and Starry Sky", Hunsand Space, Beijing, China (2024); "Mental image chart", second 2, Tokyo, Japan (2023); "Cubism on backyard", un petit GARAGE, Tokyo, Japan (2021); "Myoe’s white light", second 2, Tokyo, Japan (2020); "on a color", Engakuji Temple, Kamakura (2017); "Tennen", Gellalterna, Tokyo, Japan (2014); "Ryosuke Hara -path to the painting-", Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (2012); "Ryosuke Hara", Yuka Sasahara Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2011); "project N 36 Ryosuke Hara", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2009); "Flickering Horizon", Yuka Sasahara Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2008).
Group Exhibitions:
"One Heart in a Thousand Reflections", OōEli, Hangzhou, China (2025); "SHIROISHI ART FIELD", Tsumayama Shrine Saga, Japan (2023); "Hide and Seek. And,", Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Chigasaki City, Japan (2022); "Kiinseido", Meiji Jingu, Tokyo, Japan(2021); "Sapporo International Art Festival 2020", Hokkaido, Japan (2020); Ryosuke Hara and Kota Hirakawa, "Forest at the entrance", un petit GARAGE, Tokyo, Japan (2019); "The Way to [and From] the Museum", Chigasaki City Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (2019); "Ceramics of Painter", Atelier (Erina Matsui’s studio), Tokyo, Japan (2018); "About Ceramics", GALLERY SIDE 2, Tokyo, Japan (2015); "Collector and Artist vol.1", Warehouse TERRADA T-Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2015); "Mishikan Haming", Gellalterna, Tokyo, Japan (2011).
