Lintalow Hashiguchi’s Public Art Installation at EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai @Yumeshima, Osaka

We are pleased to announce that our gallery artist, Rintaro Hashiguchi, is exhibiting a large-scale outdoor artwork at EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai, which officially opened on Sunday, April 13 at Yumeshima, Osaka.

This exhibition is positioned as Chapter 1 of the Osaka Kansai International Art Festival. Alongside Hashiguchi, thirteen artist groups are presenting their works across the venue. His featured piece is a monumental sculpture measuring 22 meters in length and 3.6 meters in height—the largest work of his career to date—and marks the debut of his new series titled anima harmonizer. Drawing inspiration from his previous tama SEE Nation series, this new work explores the concept of mysterious life forms born from, transformed by, and constantly in motion through language.

The creation of this piece’s specially processed metal panels was made possible with the generous support of Aichi Metal Co., Ltd.

We invite you to experience this powerful public artwork, which resonates with the Expo’s guiding theme: “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.”

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Artist Statement

For me, the most significant theme in this Expo project was responding to the timeless message emitted by Taro Okamoto’s Tower of the Sun—what can be created today that resonates with such a message?

In our era, letters are no longer written but typed and displayed. This shift reflects the evolution of civilization, but also, I believe, the gradual loss of the primal energy that words once held.

Long ago, language emerged to share things that had no form. But sound-based language disappears the moment it's spoken. It was the strong emotions—of love, resistance, or care—that led people to create writing, as a means to transcend time.

This work, anima harmonizer, refers to the overlapping, harmonizing, and resonance of souls. It is born from imagination: countless formless souls drift about, and from them fall droplets of emotion. As they gather, they begin to stir with life. Eventually, something resembling a creature takes form and begins to echo the voice of the soul. This is the birth of a living being born of language in the modern age.

It’s a kind of fairytale, expressed using the simple motions, shapes, and repetition found in pictographic scripts.

Both the progress of civilization and individual growth involve inevitable divisions. But at the edge of that fragmentation, we summon a deeper spirit from within to reintegrate and sustain life. Within each person exist multiple selves, once split apart. Yet among them, the innocence we all held as children never truly dies—it remains.

I hope this work will resonate with that inner innocence and continue to empower people across time.

To Aichi Metal Co., Ltd., who dedicated extraordinary effort to realize this work, as well as the team at Gallery NAO MASAKI and everyone involved in the organization of the art festival—I offer my heartfelt gratitude. Thank you.

—Lintalow Hashiguchi

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Hashiguchianima harmonizer

Organizer: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival Executive Committee

Sponsor: Aichi Metal Co., Ltd.

Construction: Aichi Metal Co., Ltd., Sugioka Komuten Co., Ltd.

Cooperation: Gallery NAO MASAKI

EXPO 2025 Osaka, KansaiDates: April 13 (Sun) – October 13 (Mon), 2025

Hours: 9:00 – 22:00

Venue: Yumeshima, Osaka

Admission: Ticket required (Details below)https://www.expo2025.or.jp/tickets-index/price/

Official Website: https://www.expo2025.or.jp

Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival

Dates: April 11 (Fri) – October 13 (Mon), 2025

Hours/Admission: Varies by venue.

Please check details below:https://osaka-kansai.art/pages/venue

Venues: EXPO site / Osaka Culturarium at Tempozan (former Suntory Museum) / Bay Area / Nakanoshima Area (Osaka International Convention Center) / Semba Area / Nishinari Area / Kita Area / Matsubara City, and more.