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Online Exhibition
Dreamland
Cafe
Mixed Media Works by Taiga Chiba
October 7 - December 2, 2022
Extended
to January 13, 2023
Art Beatus
(Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd is very
pleased to present Dreamland Cafe,
an online solo exhibition of mixed media
works by gallery artist, Taiga Chiba.
Throughout his artistic career, travel has
been an elemental part of his creative
practice and this series of 19 works,
created in 2019 during his second residency
in Mandalay, Myanmar, is no exception.
During his residency, the artist stayed at
the Dreamland guest house and his typical
day would start at 6.30am by playing some
tennis with local residents, followed by
breakfast at the Dreamland Cafe after a
shower, and then work in the studio.
Chiba, the irrepressible perennial
traveller, likes to immerse himself into the
local culture and is often inspired by the
visual vernacular of the region by utilizing
everyday objects and synthesizing them with
his quirky and whimsical imagination. In
this series of works, he experiments with
media such as relief printing, fabric dye
painting, acrylic fabric liner and
embroidery to depict “motifs of Hindu
temples, street objects, traditional shoe
repair, and painting tools.”
Chiba has such an affinity for travel
that he is not dampened by illnesses during
his trips; in fact, he just incorporates
them into his creative process: “Quite often
I get sick in an unfamiliar environment,
such as catching a cold or getting food
poisoning. While being laid low with a
fever, many thoughts come and go in my mind;
then all of a sudden, some good ideas pop up
strangely. When I get better, I try to
realize the idea.”
Taiga Chiba was born in Shizuoka,
Japan and studied in Tokyo at Atelier Furan
Art School and Musashino Art University,
earning a Bachelor of Arts from the Plastic
Arts program. He immigrated to Canada in
1981 and in 1986, he graduated from
Concordia University in Montreal with a
Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts.
Chiba has exhibited locally and
internationally for over 40 years, been the
recipient of several awards and grants, and
has participated in numerous artist
residencies around the world. His work can
be found in many public and private
collections in North America, Asia and
Europe.
Please contact Art Beatus (Vancouver)
for more information about the artist and
these works.
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Art Beatus, with a location in Vancouver,
Canada and two locations in Hong Kong, showcases
international art with a focus on contemporary
Chinese art. Please use this information in any of
your press release and/or announcement material.
Visual material is available upon request. For more
information, please contact Media Relations, Ellinda
Siu.
Art Beatus (Vancouver) acknowledges we are
located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded
territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh
(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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