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“Memorial to the Resistance and the Deportation” 1985, Nanterre, France.

“Memorial to the Resistance and the Deportation” 1985, Nanterre, France.

🇬🇧  Born in 1949 post-war Japan, and growing up listening to the Beatles, it is fair to say that Tetsuo Harada’s youth and political views were influenced by the Anti-war and Hippy Mouvement. The abstraction of Harada’s work has given him -at times- a cover of plausible deniability. But it helps to take abstract works and explicit their meanings in the historical and political context in which they were made.

Tetsuo Harada was never affiliated with any political party or activist organisation. He remained independent politically and in his artistic expression. Many of his work were financed by the “1%” initiative in France that has a strict public review process. One of Harada’s consistent theme is “Earth Weaving” as a form of anti-war advocacy, it is deeply political.

🇯🇵  1949年に戦後の日本で生まれ、ビートルズを聞きながら育った原田哲男の青春と政治観は、反戦運動とヒッピー運動に影響を受けたと言えます。原田の作品の抽象性は、彼に時折、言い逃れ可能なカバーを提供してきました。しかし、そのような抽象的な作品を、それらが生み出された歴史的、政治的な文脈の中で明示的に意味づけることは有用です。