CHRISTIAN HIDAKA

In his signature style, he combines cultural references drawn from his autobiographical experience of Oriental culture to the Western art, such as old Japanese landscapes, science fiction, psychedelic literature, surrealism, futurism and Renaissance painting. In particular, Hidaka’s recent interest in perspective reveals that the current impasse in painting might be alleviated by a fusion of two cultural traditions merged together like a hybrid spatial structure combining the Chiaroscuro technique of the Western tradition with the oblique perspective of Asian art.

Christian Hidaka lives and works in London. He has held solo exhibitions at National Museum of Contemporary Art of Bucarest, Romania (2018), Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto (2019), CAC La Synagogue de Delme, Delme (2013) and has participated in exhibitions at Le Forum Hermes, Tokyo (2022), CAC Meymac (2022), Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2019), The Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (2008) and The 3rd Beijing Biennale, UK Pavilion, Beijing (2008). His work is represented in the collections of Centre National d’Art Plastique, France, The Israel Museum, The Saatchi Gallery, UK, Sigg Collection, Switzerland, Colas Foundation, France and The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, USA.

Text courtesy Gallery Baton.