CHRISTIAN HIDAKA

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Available for pre-order. In bookstores December 5.

Christian Hidaka’s enigmatic work, full of reminiscences, goes through the history of painting to offer a reading that is both reflexive and sensitive. Combining different pictorial references, the English artist succeeds in linking several aesthetics that seem to oppose each other. His artworks remind Renaissance painting, characterised by Euclidean geometry, as well as traditional Sino-Japanese pictorial aesthetics, favouring a flat representation of landscapes and perspective. Modern harlequins anchored in architectural fictions, white clowns and ballet dancers coexist in pixelated landscapes reminiscent of video game aesthetics. This first monographic publication devoted to the work of Christian Hidaka looks back over his entire career (2002-2024) and presents a wide selection of his work. It is accompanied by a text by art historian Peter Read, who presents the different stages in the artist’s career and provides keys to understanding his symbolic work.