Metal sculptor Masahiro Hasegawa creates fantastical lotus gardens using metal as his medium.

The lotus, growing in mud yet never sullied, blooming a pure flower, has long symbolized “enlightenment” and “rebirth” in Eastern philosophy.

Hasegawa's work “Meditative Garden” embodies the resilient materiality of metal and the formless spiritual realm born of meditation. This cycle of opposing worldviews speaks to us of the circularity of “life and death,” “immutability and impermanence,” “matter and spirit.”

Metal, inherently an inorganic, hard material, reveals to us its transformation into vitality and spirituality—gently swaying in the wind, rising from the water's surface.

Hasegawa has energetically pursued installations in diverse spaces: traditional Japanese houses, industrial heritage factory sites, and white cube galleries.

The otherworldly space (Meditative Garden), which profoundly alters its expression within each unique environment, simultaneously demonstrates the potential of metal as a material and redefines craft in the contemporary era, while quietly stirring our souls.

1961 Born in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture

1984 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Crafts, Metal Crafts Major

1986 Completed Graduate School of Kanazawa College of Art, Sculpture Major

Major Solo Exhibitions

1985 Ban Gallery (Osaka, '91, '99)

2002 Gallery Maronie (Kyoto, '04, '10, '18)

2005 Gion Konishi (Kyoto, '07, '21)

2009 Gallery Yuragi (Kyoto)

2019 “-Floating ‘Interval’-” (Note Gallery / Osaka)

2021 “Transient Space - With Lotus” THE TERMINAL KYOUTO (Kyoto)

2023 “memory” (Note Gallery / Osaka)

Major Group Exhibitions

2011 Kizugawa Art (Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture, '12, '14, '16)

2022 ART OSAKA 2022 Expanded Section (Creative Center Osaka / Former Namura Shipbuilding Osaka Factory Site, ’23)

Public Collections

Kyoto Kita Oji Town (Kyoto), Makurazaki City Materials Center Minamimekan (Kagoshima), Hyuga City Cultural Exchange Center (Miyazaki)

Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Basic Medical Sciences Building (Kyoto), Asago Art Museum (Hyogo), Emmar Corporation (Dubai, UAE)

Awaji Yumebutai Miracle Planet Plant Museum (Hyogo), Sculpture Park Kronan (Luleå, Sweden)

Music Park (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Embassy of Japan in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Makurazaki Art Street (Kagoshima), Kansai Fukushi University High School (Osaka), BenQ Corporation (Taiwan)

Kizugawa City Takushi District (Kyoto), Osaka Prefecture University Advanced Biotechnology Building (Osaka), Aspira Yamashiro (Kizugawa City)

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