Advisory Perspective
Yuichi Hirako Attracts Global Market Attention with Latest Exhibition
Gallery Baton are opening their first solo exhibition of work by Japanese painter and sculptor Yuichi Hirako this week.
The young artist, who studied at Wimbledon College of Arts in London, has already attracted a lot of attention from major collectors in Asia off the back of solo shows with Kotaro Nukaga in Tokyo and Warehouse Gallery in Hong Kong earlier this year.
His surreal, figurative paintings rendered in bold, painterly brushstrokes are indicative of a global trend in contemporary painting. Many of these sought-after figurative painters originated in the West and have lately received a huge market boost from young, hungry Asian collectors, but here the roles are reversed, and could this be a sign of things to come?
