Hiroshi Senju

HIROSHI SENJU (Japan, 1958).
"Life", 2004.
Lithograph on paper. Copy 108/150.
It presents frame with soiling.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 130 x 107 cm; 135 x 112 cm (frame).
Hiroshi Senju was born in Tokyo, where he began his artistic training. He completed the Master of Fine Arts program at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1984 and the Ph.D. in 1987.
His success came largely in the 1990s in response to his giant waterfall paintings. One of Senju's waterfalls was the first painting by an Asian artist to receive an Honorable Mention at the Venice Biennale in 1995.These waterfall paintings often focus on the base of the waterfall, where the falls crash into the pool below, usually clipping the top of the falls. As a painter he primarily uses traditional Japanese painting techniques; employing pigments derived from natural materials and applying them to a specially designed mulberry paper base. In contrast to the norm of exhibiting such works in a dimly lit room with tatami mats, Hiroshi prefers his paintings to be viewed under natural light.

He was elected a member of the Japan Academy of Art in 2022. In 1995, at the 46th Venice Biennale celebrating its centennial, Senju, who represented Japan, exhibited a huge waterfall mural in the Japan Pavilion, measuring 3.4 meters high and 14 meters wide. Senju titled the work "THE FALL," which implied the fall of man, in Christian theology, God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden.