Lintalow Hashiguchi Participates in “Composing Scenery through Harmony” @WALL_alternative, Tokyo

We are pleased to announce that our gallery artist, Rintaro Hashiguchi, is participating in the exhibition “Composing Scenery through Harmony,” which opened on Friday, March 14, at WALL_alternative in Tokyo.

Curated by independent curator Kentaro Watanabe, who is based in Kyoto, this exhibition features five contemporary artists whose practices are deeply rooted in traditional Japanese aesthetics and spiritual sensibilities. The selected works span a variety of genres, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, and ceramics. Hashiguchi will present a large-scale piece in the show. We warmly invite you to visit and experience the exhibition.

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Exhibition Title: Composing Scenery through Harmony Dates: March 14 (Fri) – April 5 (Sat), 2025 (Closed Sundays) Hours: 18:00 – 24:00 Venue: WALL_alternative (1F, 4-2-4 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Admission: Free / No reservation requiredNote: Advance reservations are required only for certain time slots on March 14, 15, and 16. Exhibition Website: https://avex.jp/wall/exhibition/497/

Organized by: WALL_alternative Curator: Kentaro Watanabe Collaborator: YOKOYAMA TATAMI Graphic Design: Kohei Sekikawa Supported by: Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Arts Council Tokyo [Grant for Enhancing the Charm of Arts and Culture]

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Lintalow Hashiguchi

Born in 1985 in Nagasaki Prefecture, Rintaro Hashiguchi is a calligrapher and "WLight-er." Deeply inspired by punk rock in his teens, he became fascinated with expressing messages in his own way. He began working with text-based expressions after enrolling in the calligraphy program at Fukuoka University of Education in 2004. Influenced by various postwar avant-garde movements, he was particularly inspired by the philosophy of Yuichi Inoue, a prominent postwar Japanese calligrapher, who declared that “calligraphy is art for all people.”

Hashiguchi embraces calligraphy as the “simplest form of art that requires only paper and pencil, and costs nothing” and sees it as a source of energy for everyday life. He constantly jots down fragmentary words that strike him in daily life, and these fragments evolve like living creatures, forming a body of work known as WORD MUTANT.

He uses inexpensive towels as writing tools, working with a rapid, punk-like intensity. His work stands in stark contrast to today's text, which often exists only as typographic symbols on screens, offering a striking physical presence in contemporary visual culture.