| Japan Foundation / Takahiro Hayakawa

Takahiro Hayakawa was born in 1979. Having received many national and international awards at the world-renowned competitions such as “ARS ELECTRONICA 2005“ “SIGGRAPH 2008“ “2004 Asia Digital Art Award“etc., he is an animation filmmaker of a new blood and emerging generation. His works are a combination of hand-drawn animation and computer-based generative animation in the form of organic expression. He considers that “animation“ and “animism“ are both originated from “anima“ and his keywords are “animation“, “animism“ and “anima“ based on a motif of Asian countries including Japan which are entitled, “the world of spirit“. At this exhibition the four works that will be shown are: “KASHIKOKIMONO“ “AUN NIJI“ “UNSAN MUSHO“ and “EN“.