アトリエ三月 / Atelier Sangatsu

Atelier Sangatsu is a gallery that opened in Nakazakicho, Umeda, Osaka, in 2015. It is run by painter and artist Yasuhiro Hara.

With the motto, “Creating new futures for all forms of expression,” Atelier Sangatsu presents a wide range of practices, including illustration, painting, contemporary art, and outsider art, embracing forms of expression that are not confined by existing genres or even by the framework of “ART” itself.

In recent years, character-based expression has become increasingly visible across the global art scene. Since its founding in 2015, Atelier Sangatsu has actively presented artists working with character imagery and illustration-based painting, even at a time when such practices were not yet widely recognized within the context of “contemporary art.”

Just as the Gutai Art Association once emerged from postwar Kansai, Atelier Sangatsu continues to approach the art scene from its margins, introducing expressions that may exist outside established categories and conventions.

Since 2021, we have also organized exhibitions and projects actively beyond Osaka.

Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1983. Based in Osaka.

In 2004, he was deeply influenced by a retrospective exhibition of the Gutai Art Association held at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, which led him to begin painting as a self-taught artist.

In 2015, he opened Atelier Sangatsu in Nakazakicho, Osaka.

Abandoning the conventional act of “depicting” or “drawing,” he has developed a variety of series centered on abstract expression derived from a single brushstroke.