Daisuke Tajima - Beyond the Lines

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Christine Ip, CEO – Greater China, UOB, said, "UOB is honoured to partner with Art Central for the seventh consecutive year. The partnership is a testament to our long-term commitment to the vibrant Hong Kong art scene and to fostering greater connectivity within and beyond Hong Kong through visual art. The diversity of our artists, art programmes, and art forms reflects the multi-cultural society we live in. Together, we look forward to providing a dynamic and inspiring cultural experience to audiences during the Hong Kong Art Week.” This time, we will exhibit works to commemorate the publication of Daisuke Tajima’s long-awaited first art book “BEYOND THE LINES”. In addition to a signed collection of works and original works drawn with paper and ink, copperplate prints will also be on sale. The figurative paintings by Spanish-born painter Cristina Lama, whose gestural, figurative visual-art language and pictorial compositions undercut serenity with psychological intensity, will be featured in a solo presentation by Delimbo Gallery (Seville).

Art Central, a cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week, showcases the next generation of talent from Asia’s most innovative galleries alongside distinguished artists from around the world. Since its inaugural edition in 2015, Art Central has established itself as a professional platform for pushing boundaries in contemporary art and is recognised today as a place of discovery for collectors and curators representing private, corporate, and institutional collections worldwide. After studying sculpture at a Japanese university, he went to Taiwan to study. He creates works by combining his own imagination with memories obtained from traveling in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Currently based in Taiwan and Hong Kong, we are developing activities mainly in the Asian region. This land of millennia-old wooden temples and hundreds of tame bowing deer will sound like a Ghibli-esque fairytale to many, beautiful and unreal, but it’s the ordinary world where Tajima grew up. For him, conversely, the land of fantasy was a concrete maze of skyscrapers reaching for the heavens like those shown in his favorite animated works, namely Akira and Ghost in the Shell. “That was a different world I could not experience,” Tajima explains. “And only when I was a bit older did I realize these urban spaces are real and exist elsewhere.” Daisuke Tajima was born in 1993 and is an artist from Nara Prefecture. After studying sculpture at a Japanese university and studying abroad in Taiwan, he is developing his activities mainly in Asian countries such as Taiwan and Hong Kong. Influenced by Japanese manga, animation, and movies from the 1990s onwards, such as Naoki Urasawa and Katsuhiro Otomo, he combines his own imagination, which has been honed, with memories of the landscapes he actually experienced in Taiwan and Hong Kong, creating ultra-detailed works. Draw a fictitious city using lines. The influential 021gallery based in Daegu will bring together leading creative thinkers of South Korea’s contemporary art scene, featuring the experimental abstract paintings of Rahm Parc and levitating charcoal sculptures of Seon-Ghi Bahk, amongst other artists.With the recent lifting of travel restrictions in Hong Kong, the Fair looks forward to reuniting local and international audiences in a truly multicultural celebration of art. Art Central 2023 will welcome the participation of 70 influential galleries and over 300 artists.

K Gallery from Chengdu will join the Fair with a group exhibition of artists from the Chinese contemporary vanguard: Zhou Chunya, Fang Lijun and Yin Zhaoyang.

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The Fair’s eighth edition will present some of the most exciting and groundbreaking contemporary artists working today from Hong Kong, the Asia-Pacific region and beyond: Farrer C., Valentin G., Hupé J. M. (2013). The time windows of the sense of agency. Conscious. Cogn. 22, 1431–1441. 10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.010 [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] The first collection of works by artist Daisuke Tajima. Driven by the influence of the American sci-fi movies and Japanese animation that he saw in his childhood, and the memories he gained through his travels to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China, he creates a huge canvas drawn using pen and ink. Skyscrapers that fill up. The dense monochrome space depicts a surreal world where only the industrial and emotionless can exist. Another world that Tajima frequently inhabits is the digital one, where we meet for the interview. He had graciously invited me to visit him in Nara, but he expected that I wouldn’t be able to go.

And if limitless connections are the bright side of technology, the dark side is human replacement and the very recent and controversial AI art bulldozing over artists and the very humanity of art. As a young law graduate in Sialkot (now in Pakistan), Kuldip Nayar witnessed at first hand the collapse of trust between Hindus and Muslims who were living together for generations, and like multitude of population he was forced to migrate to Delhi across the blood-stained plains of Punjab. From his perilous journey to a new country and to his first job as a young journalist in an Urdu daily, Nayar’s account is also the story of India. From his days as a young journalist in Anjam to heading India’s foremost news agency, UNI and from mainstream journalism to starting his now immensely popular syndicated column, ‘Between the Lines’, Nayar has always stood for the freedom of press and journalism of courage. Widely respected for his columns, his autobiography opens on the day Pakistan Resolution was passed in Lahore in 1940 and takes us on a journey through India’s story of a nation working on its foreign policy, development plans, relations with neighbouring countries, and dealing with coalition politics among others. From events of historical and political relevance like Tashkent Declaration and the 1971 war and the liberation of Bangladesh, to interviewing Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Mujibur Rahman and from meeting Pakistan’s father of nuclear bomb, Dr A.Q. Khan, to his close association with Lal Bahadur Shastri and Jayaprakash Narayan, Nayar’s narrative is a detailed inside view of our nation’s past and present. Beyond the Lines: An Autobiography by Kuldip Nayar – eBook Details PDF / EPUB File Name: Beyond_the_Lines__An_Autobiography_-_Kuldip_Nayar.pdf, Beyond_the_Lines__An_Autobiography_-_Kuldip_Nayar.epub Holmes N. P., Crozier G., Spence C. (2004). When mirrors lie: ‘visual capture’ of arm position impairs reaching performance. Cogn. Affect. Behav. Neurosci. 4, 193–200. 10.3758/CABN.4.2.193 [ PMC free article] [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar]

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Please take this opportunity to enjoy the transcendental technique that represents the next generation. Hungarian-born József Csató will debut at Art Central 2023 with a solo showing by Double Q Gallery (Hong Kong), incorporating a hybrid of Neo-primitivism traits with tongue-and-cheek references to art history and European Christianity in his expressive, geometric paintings.