Evening presentation by Hiroshi Senju, Artist Drinks reception: 6:30 pm Discussion: 7:00 pm Close: 8:00 pm Hiroshi Senju, one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary painters, will talk about his art practice, his pursuit of beauty in his monumental landscape images and the place and purpose of art in our increasingly chaotic and artificial age. Senju was born in Japan in 1958 and lives and works in New York. He seamlessly combines a minimalist visual language rooted in abstract expressionism with ancient painting techniques unique to Japan. Widely recognized as one of the few contemporary masters of the thousand-year-old Nihonga style of painting, he uses mineral pigments made from ground stone, shells, corals, binding them with animal-hide glue. His arresting images of cascading waterfalls and jagged cliffs hover between figuration and abstraction, evoking the forces of nature. Ticketing https://ticketing.asiasociety.org.hk/?e=5153fec6b8c1e