Sadao Hasegawa

PISS ARTISTS

CALLE
DEMUTH
HAMMONS
HASEGAWA
MANNEKEN PIS
QUINN
SERRANO
SMITH
WARHOL

 

URINAL ARTISTS

DUCHAMP
KASAHARA
LEVINE
REDFORD

On 20 November 20 1999, the body of Sadao Hasegawa was discovered in a Bangkok hotel room—he had hung himself.

According to Hasegawa's brother, the police who entered the hotel room of the 54 year old artist reported that the suicide was premeditated and resembled that of a Samurai warrior. A series of orderly clues, including a hand written note from Hasegawa, asking forgiveness for his life, and a portrait of author Yukio Mishima, drawn on a rock, by Hasegawa, were displayed on a table.

 
Lithograph 2
Lithograph on Drawing Paper
41cm x 56 cm
Steve Adonna

 

This page draws on "Piss Art: Images of Urination in 20th Century Art," by Christopher Chapman.

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