Bringing years of exclusive agency, Soka Art will present at ART TAICHUNG 2023 with the form of an artist's solo exhibition, including a new series of 16 oil paintings and 19 works on paper by Iida Kiriko, a Japanese modern artist whose works are widely beloved by collectors.  In this rare exhibition, viewers will experience the depth of Iida Kiriko's sketching skills and imagination through a series of numerous narrative sketches as elegant and refined as oil paintings. VIP Preview starts from 3 pm until 7 pm on July 13. The art fair will be opened to the public from July 14 to 16. The Soka Art exhibition will be located in Room 1002, with marvelous art displays that certainly should not be missed. All of our distinguished guests are welcome to visit!

As a graduate from the Hokkaido Institute of Design, Iida has won countless awards in Japan's art community.  She was also nominated for the Shell Art Award for two years in a row from 2003 to 2004. Her nostalgic and fantastical style was exceptionally received at many famous international art expos, such as Art Basel Hong Kong, Young Art Taipei, Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Artists' Fair Kyoto, and Art Nagoya. Her work is a popular choice among many entrepreneurs and designers seeking to collect. The works of Iida Kiriko, who has enjoyed many years of popularity in Asia, continue to be hot, consistently sparking widespread discussion whenever a new work is put on display.

Born in Hokkaido, Iida creates art that is rooted deep in the heart by means of quiet and tranquil character visuals and mysterious Yakiguni scenery.  They merge the spiritual and natural beliefs of Hokkaido's indigenous Ainu people with her own dreamland imagination to create works of mystery and fantasy with clean scenes and deep characters full of cold elements - snow, white, quiet, and calm. Within her snow-white fairytales one can always find elf-like youths and children with faces so fair they might crack, cheeks and eye sockets frozen red through and through, and glances and expressions rich with spirit and diversity, innocence, mischief, melancholy, and purity that emit their own individual charm and character and attract our tender affections. Each work is like a marvelous freeze frame out of a fairytale, with meaningful looks and interactions between characters or frolicing adventures with all the beings of the forest, all full of intense dramatic tension and infinite imaginative space while also reflecting the mutual harmony and pursuit of beauty between the people of Hokkaido and nature.