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Ota Fine Arts Shanghai | "Works on Paper" Opening 23th January

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Ota Fine Arts Shanghai | Works on Paper Opening 23th January January Ota Opening Handa Tsuyoshi March present pastel multi lines 崇真艺客

Works on Paper

Maria Farrar, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado, Tang Dixin

23 January ― 6 March 2021

Ota Fine Arts Shanghai is delighted to present “Works on Paper”, an exhibition where paper is used as a common medium among four artists including Maria Farrar, Masanori Handa, Tsuyoshi Hisakado and Tang Dixin.

Maria Farrar’s (b.1988) pastel drawings are imbued with bright and varied colors. The Covid-19 pandemic gave Farrar an opportunity to rediscover her love for pastels, in particular their ease of use and purity of colours. As lockdown restrictions prevail, she admits that her use of vibrant pastel colors is her form of protest against monotonous days and negative thinking. Pondering Farrar’s work, one unknowingly slips into a playful world of seemingly real yet unreal settings. Leisurely days of walking down a row of shops to the bakery and bookstore, encounters at the British Museum, browsing through the wine selection at the local cellar, Farrar leaves her viewers wanting more of such imagery.

Tang Dixin (b. 1982) often depicts crowds of people in a humorous yet ruthless manner, hinting that they are perhaps inferior to beasts. For this exhibition, he continues to explore the human form with a limited palette of red and blue ink. The red and blue drawings are his largest ink on paper works till date. Tang has painted these works by applying ink directly onto paper with his fingers, which allows him to combine hard and soft strokes with greater immediacy, control and contrast. Blue was chosen as a background color and red was chosen for being opposite to blue, and it being a color with vitality. Like a grinning mask of humour, Tang illustrates the duality and contradictions found in human behavior.

With contrasting colours and multi-fold lines, Masanori Handa (b.1979) creates pictorial landscapes that are inspired by atmosphere, climate, psychogeography and fleeting encounters. While Handa is more commonly associated with large-scale immersive installations, these works on paper are an extension of his practice. With oil pastels and vibrant rich watercolours, Handa depicts the pine tree in “amacyan gayacyan ittcyan buncyan minna nakayoshi”. Pine is known to represent longevity, goodness and virtue in Japanese culture, hence invoking feelings of goodwill and comfort as one views a landscape from a distance.

Elsewhere, Tsuyoshi Hisakado (b. 1981) showcases a series of works on paper. Appearing as blocks of monochrome and colour gradients from afar, the intricacies of his work are only revealed as one moves closer. The “Crossfades #4” series are composed of the π sequence extended across the sheet in a continuous spiral. The continuity of π is distorted when Hisakado adds ink, irregular lines and shapes to it, invoking subtle shifts in the concepts of space and eternity. Time and space, simultaneously collapse and continue in these works, revealing his poetic sensibilities through simple visual composition.

While works on paper can often be associated with study works or preparatory sketches, Ota Fine Arts Shanghai welcomes you to explore these works that hold a unique weight of their own.

About the Artists

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Maria Farrar (b. 1988, Philippines) was raised in Shimonoseki, Japan between the age of 2 through 15, before she moved to the UK where she received her BFA from the Ruskin School of Art, in 2012 and her MFA from the Slade School of Art in 2016. Her solo exhibitions include “Spring”, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai (2020), “Too late to turn back now”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Singapore (2019), “Eaves Deep”, mother’s tankstation, London (2018), “straits”, mother’s tankstation, Dublin (2017), “Marine”, Supplement Gallery, London (2016). She also participated in group exhibitions including “Post Art Fair”, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2020), “Xenia: Crossroads in Portrait Painting”, Marianne Boesky Gallery – Chealsea, New York (2020), “Day Tripper”, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK (2019), “Ways of Seeing”, Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019 and the Government Art Collection, London, UK (2019), “Present Progressive”, Ota FineArts, Tokyo, Japan (2019), “The Horse”, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2018), “Hypnagogia”, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (2018), “Known Unknowns”, Saatchi Gallery, London (2018), “Pink Density”, Clovis XV, Brussels (2016), “Curious Struggle: Tim Patrick & Maria Farrar”, Arthouse 1, London (2014). Her works are in the collection of Saatchi Gallery Collection (London), Magdalen College Library University of Oxford (Oxford) and AmC Collezione Coppola (Venice).

Masanori Handa (b. 1979) was born in Kanagawa and completed a BA in Fine Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2003, where he continues to work today. His works have previously been shown at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale (2006), the Art Tower Mito (2007) andInujima "Art House Project" during Setouchi Triennale (2019). In 2009, Handa was selected to be a part of the prestigious "Rolex ArtInitiative Mentor and Protégé" program where he was mentored by Rebecca Horn, an accomplished German installation artist and film director. Subsequently, he participated in notable group exhibitions, workshops and site-specific projects the Hara Museum, Tokyo (2009), the Edoardo Chiossone Museum, Genoa (2009), the TATE Modern, London (2009), the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011), and the Museum of Architecture, Warsaw (2015). His main solo exhibitions include “Tokyo Palace”, statements, Tokyo, Japan (2017), “nakakiyono entakukei”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2015), "Study", αM Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2010). Public collections include Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan Foundation, Takahashi collection.

Tsuyoshi Hisakado (b. 1981, Kyoto) completed a M.F.A. at the Department of Sculpture of the Kyoto City Universityof Arts in 2007. Hisakado's practice focuses on the seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life. He assembles evidence of history and phenomena that are unique to specific places, creating installations that combine sound, light, and sculpture. In March 2020, Hisakado held his first museum-scale solo exhibition at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan. Hisakado was elected the East Asian Cultural Exchange Envoy and has been awarded the ‘Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2018-2020’, the Audience Award at the 'NISSAN ART AWARD 2015', and the Grand Prize of the 'VOCA 2016 The Vision of Contemporary Art'. He has participated in various group exhibitions including the ‘58th Venice Biennale 2019: May You Live in Interesting Times” (Venice, 2019)’, ‘Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition (Kyoto, 2017)’, 'AICHI TRIENNALE 2016 rainbow caravan' and has held solo exhibitions at ‘MoCA Pavilion Special Project (Shanghai, 2016), Ota Fine Arts Singapore (2015) and Ota Fine Arts Tokyo (2018). Hisakado is a founding member of the artist collective SHlNCHIKA which was formed in 2002.

Tang Dixin (b. 1982, Hangzhou, China) lives and works in Shanghai. In 2005, he graduated from the Faculty of Painting, Shanghai Normal University, China. Tang’s solo exhibitions include “Tang Dixin”, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (2018), “Tang Dixin”, AIKE, Shanghai(2017), “Dog Bark”, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2015), “Mr. Hungry”, AIKE-DELLARCO, Shanghai (2014). He has also participated in notable group exhibitions such as “FLOAT”, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2020), “Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese Video Art”, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing (2020), “Two Houses: Politics and histories in the contemporary art collections of John Chia and Yeap Lam Yang”, ICA Singapore (2018); “Absolute Collection Guideline”, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2015), “10th Gwangju Biennale – Burning Down the House”, Gwangju, (2014), “Revel – Celebrating MoCA’s 8 Years in Shanghai”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2013) and “ON | OFF China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013).

Image：Maria Farrar, Fleurie, 2020, Pastel on paper, 42 x 29.5 cm © Maria Farrar, Courtesy of Ota Fine Arts