THE 8TH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART

APT artist Maria Taniguchi is featured at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) in Australia.
Maria Taniguchi is best known for her ongoing series of large 'brick' paintings in which she arranges a consistent grid pattern into different surface configurations. Taniguchi emphasises the performative nature of these paintings, the way in which she first draws out a grid on the canvas and then paints in one brick at a time. Despite their predetermined composition, the surfaces of these paintings are not uniform or static. In works such as Untitled 2014 and Untitled 2015 gradations of shade are achieved by varying the amount of water and acrylic and become discernible as the viewer moves in front of the painting. The repetitive process of Taniguchi's paintings can be viewed as a form of organising structure in the context of the densely populated urban environment of Manila. The paintings are exhibited leaning on the ground, affording them a sculptural quality and reinforcing their relationship to minimal art. 

The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art's flagship contemporary art series. Since 1993, the APT series has drawn by more than 2.2 million visitors with its unique mix of visual spectacle and cross-cultural insight. The APT has driven the Gallery's focus on the region and enabled the development of one of the world's most significant collections of contemporary Asian and Pacific art.