Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27.08.2010, Niklas Maak: [...] The fact that a parting of ways with the classical European idea of pictorial arrangement owes much to an Asian tradition too – which draws spatial boundaries as uniquely as it does the boundaries between calculation and spontaneity, control and chance, writing and image, drawing and symbols – is demonstrated in the Berlin show particularly in the piece by the Japanese artist Hana Usui (born 1974). Her unnamed drawing from 2008, which hints at Hartung's delicate lines as well as classical calligraphy exercises and the organisational charts of airlines, is one of the newest and best pieces in this show – at the same time representing something like the echo of and the synopsis of the development of Euro-American art, which has its roots in the traditional calligraphy of Japan. (Translation Galerie oko).
"The Esprit of Gestures. Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact", Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Mueseen zu Berlin, 30 July - 10 October 2010. Works by Hans Hartung, Wols, Pierre
Soulages, Jackson Pollock, Karl Otto Götz, Emil Schumacher, K.R.H.
Sonderborg, Salvador Dalí, Günter Brus, Maria Lassnig, Emilio Vedova,
Peter Brüning, Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, Mark Tobey, Hana Usui,
Emil Schreiber, Chris Newman, Gabriele Basch, Katharina Hinsberg,
Günther Förg, Damien Hirst and Mark Sheinkman.
Hana Usui
1974-00 Born in Tokyo
1980-99 Calligraphy study; 1988-99 student of master Undo Inamura, Tokyo
1994-98 Art-history studies at Waseda University, Tokyo
1998-99 Courses in Design at Bunka Gakuin, Tokyo
2000-02 Artistic work in Vienna
2003-00 Artistic work in Tokyo
2004-09 Artistic work in Berlin
2006-00 Residency in Bolzano/Bozen/IT
2008-09 Lectureship at the Art History Institute of Freie Universitaet Berlin
2010--00 Artistic work in Vienna
Awards, Prizes and Grants
2007-00 Solo-Exhibition at Galerie oko selected by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt
0000-00 for the Asian-Pacific-Weeks Berlin; Performance with Yoko Tawada
2005-00 Supported by the Office for Culture of Berlin-Pankow
1997-00 Second prize in the national Keisei calligraphy competition
1994-98 Selected for the exhibitions at the national Mainichi and Keisei calligraphy
0000-00 competition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Selected Solo Exhibitions (C=catalogue)
2010-00 Galerie oko, Berlin
2009-00 Manggha Museum of Japanese Art & Technology (National Collection), Krakow/PL
0000-00 Galerie Waidspeicher (municipal gallery), Erfurt/DE
0000-00 Essenheimer Kunstverein (with F. Maltz), next to Mainz/DE
2008-00 Schwartzsche Villa (municipal gallery), Berlin (C)
0000-00 Gallery 41artecontemporanea, Turin/IT
0000-00 Open Art at Galerie Lichtpunkt, Munich/DE (C)
2007-00 Gallery Tomos, Tokyo
0000-00 Galerie oko, Berlin
2006-00 Kunstkontor Rampoldt, Berlin (C)
2005-00 Galerie oko, Berlin
2003-00 Galerie Kierat I, Stettin/PL
2002-00 Porgy & Bess, Wien
0000-00 Kuso Galleria, Tokyo
1998-00 Kuso Galleria, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions (C=catalogue)
2011-00 "Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact", Gut Altenkamp, Papenburg/DE
2010-00 "Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact", Kupferstichkabinett - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
0000-00 Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/DE
0000-00 Kommunale Galerie (municipal gallery), Berlin
0000-00 41artecontemporanea, Turin/IT
2009-00 Museum Residenzgalerie Salzburg/AT (C)
0000-00 Bassenge Art Auction, Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin
2008-00 Parallevent to Manifesta 7, Municipal Gallery of Bolzano/Bozen/IT
0000-00 Charity-Art-Auction at Berlinische Galerie (Berlin's Museum of Modern Art) (C)
0000-00 Gallery Art Academy, Erlengut next to Zürich/CH
0000-00 Grand Palais, Paris (C)
2007-00 Collegio Raffaello, Urbino/IT
0000-00 Galleria 41artecontemporanea, Turin/IT
0000-00 Charity-Art-Auctio at Pergamon Museum, Berlin (C)
2006-00 NBK (New Berlin’s Art Association)
0000-00 Charity-Art-Auction at Kunstmuseum Bonn/DE (C)
2005-00 Manggha Center of Japanese Art & Technology (National Museum), Krakow/PL
1994-98 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Collections
Angermuseum Erfurt, Erfurt/DE
Kommunale Galerie (municipal gallery), Berlin
NBK (New Berlin’s Art Association)
ZLB (Central and Regional Library Berlin)
Berlinische Galerie (Berlin's Museum of Modern Art, Photography & Architecture)
Federal Foreign Office of Germany
Kupferstichkabinett, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/DE
Manggha Museum of Japanese Art & Technology, Krakow/PL
Museum der Moderne Salzburg/AT
Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery), Berlin
Si und Dieter Rosenkranz, Berlin
Julietta Scharf, Berlin
Update 09.2011
Impressum
