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It can be odd to link the line spoken by Marcellus in Hamlet with the surrealistic, hyper-realistic paintings by Japanese artist Kazuhiro Hori aka Chardin Chardin (a 2018 Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Art Prize, 2nd Prize Winner).

Kazuhiro Hori was born in Japan in 1969. He graduated from Kanazawa College of Art. Having made painting his main discipline, he portrays a certain nightmare vision of adolescence in his troubling works. The surrealist paintings of the Japanese artist depict young girls in colorful environments filled with soft toys and sweets.

Arch Enemy Arts presents SANCTUARY, ten exquisite new paintings by Tokyo-based artist Kazuhiro Hori, set in the artist’s signature sweet, candy-coated dreamworld. Here, Japanese schoolgirls are tempted and taunted, lured and provoked by the bedeviled ephemera of their own adolescence, masterfully rendered by the artist’s deft hand.

Mar 8, 2024 · For over a decade, Kazuhiro Hori has been captivating audiences with his evocative paintings that center around girls and their surrounding environments. This thematic focus is not merely an aesthetic choice but a profound exploration of contemporary girlhood as …

Hori's surrealist paintings depict young girls in colourful environments filled with soft toys and sweets. The created contrast is disturbing and directly inspired by some traditional Shunga Japanese erotic prints.

Painter Kazuhiro Hori creates cloyingly sweet, candy-coated dreamworlds inhabited by Japanese schoolgirls and bedeviled ephemera of their adolescence.

Tokyo-based painter Kazuhiro Hori creates cloyingly sweet, candy-coated dreamworlds. Rendering evil stuffed animals, blood-colored gooey jam, and menacing toys with lifelike accuracy, his compositions directly reference traditional shunga (erotic …

Jul 24, 2022 · A fluffy, pink candy-land could do no harm to anyone, but Kazuhiro Hori’s paintings portray the opposite. This Japanese artist shook the world with his intimate depictions of feminine despair, loathing, yearning, and blood-shot eyes.

Works by KAZUHIRO HORI: Milky way, 2021 , Endless Dream, 2022 , Unfulfilled Dream, 2022 , Eat Me, 2022 , Waver, 2022 , Vain , Spell, 2020 , Temptation, 2020 ...