While Hashimoto has previously used oil and acrylic paints on canvas to explore tangents in his work, asides and inspirations, these latest explorations in painting are more substantively an extension of the body of work for which he is best known. Through the language of these paintings, we can beter understand the fundamental conceptual substrates of his process. The paintings both allow us a deeper understanding of his lifetime of work and suggest potential directions for Hashimoto’s practice. They strip the work of its charactaristic technique and leaves the essential gestures and motifs – the foundations of Hashimoto’s musings. The signature characteristics of his broader output are still recognizable: here, the essential architectures undergirding his kite-based work now translate to the color fields and layered paint marks appearing on these medium-sized canvases.
Alongside these chromatic abstractions, a new series of paintings employing a muted, largely black and white palete will hang in a row on the longest wall of the gallery.
