Christian Hidaka

With a fascination for the history of pictorial space and the evolution of representational methods, British-Japanese artist Christian Hidaka produces enigmatic images. His complex mental landscapes are animated by an intimate associative logic through which disparate temporalities and spatial structures collide in the quest for new pictorial forms. In recent work, the artist’s interest for perspective and figurative language were joined by a reflection on theatre and the Art of Memory, which Hidaka develops both in the realm of picture planes and beyond the physical margins of the pictorial frame when executing wall paintings. His answer offered to painting’s current impasse is a fusion of two cultural traditions merged together in what the artist calls an “Eurasian” mode of crafting images: a hybrid spatial structure combining the chiaroscuro technique of Western tradition with the oblique perspective of Asian art.

Hidaka born in 1977, in Noda, JPN, lives and works in London, UK.

Solo exhibitions include Tambour Ancien, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris, France 2021; Siparium, Galerie Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium, 2021; Set for Four Players, a Sundial and a Bear, Galerie Fabian Lang, Zürich, CH, 2021; Peter's Proscenium, (two person exh. with Raphael Zarka, cur. Mona Filip), Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Canada, 2019; Grand Black (Saison 3, Murs), La Tôlerie, Clermont Ferrand, France, 2019 ; Unhooked a Star (cur. Ioana Mandeal), MNAC, Bucharest, Romania, 2018; Desert Stage, CAC Le Grand Café, St Nazaire, France, 2016.