Christian Hidaka
Posted by Fabio 20 May 2011
Artist Christian Hidaka is known for a distinctive visual vocabulary made of broad brush-strokes saturated by Technicolor palettes, recalling psychedelic design culture over the past forty years. His landscape paintings depict archaic and futuristic landscapes that combine styles and narratives whose conventions are partly inherited from Japanese prints.
Christian Hidaka (formerly Ward) was born in 1977 in Noda, Japan and lives and works in London. In 2010 Hidaka had a solo show at Michael Rein, Paris and was selected for The Library of Babel at 176 Gallery, London. Group shows in 2009 included Eat-me, Drink-me, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas and Elements of Nature at the Weisman Art Museum, California. In 2008 he was part of the Beijing Biennale and Imaginary Realities at Max Wigram Gallery.
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