Teiji Hayama is a Japanese painter known for his supernaturalism elongated, and milk- skinned nymphs paintings.
Teiji Hayama’s work join together western and Japanese influences, combining different art historical periods varying from Christian art, Greek mythology, subculture to Japanese culture.
His art features flat-relief sculpture pubescent girls evolving into women, a transitional stage involving social and psychological changes.
They represent messengers whose glassy, ambiguous gazes remind the viewer of the importance of life. The portraits are sometimes depicted naked expressing a form of innocence, one and unique entity showing the purest essence of the human being.
He appeared in international magazines like Vogue Magazine shot by Glen Luchford, Wallpaper, THE FACE and Ray Gun. Hayama currently lives in Switzerland and has exhibited his work regularly in galleries throughout the world.
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