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2024 Shanghai West Bund Art & Design
07 Nov 2024-10 Nov 2024
Information

📍 Booth B321
CHINI GALLERY


📌Artists
Ho Kan
LEE Kuang-Yu
YANG Pei-Chen
CHEN Cheng-Wei


▍VIP Preview
7 Nov. (Thu.) 1PM – 7PM
8 Nov. (Fri.) 12PM – 1PM


▍General Admission 
8 Nov. (Fri.) 1PM – 6PM
9 Nov. (Sat.) 12PM – 6PM
10 Nov. (Sun.) 12PM – 6PM


▍Venue 
Shanghai West Bund Art Center Hall B

Overview

This year marks CHINI Gallery's inaugural participation in the West Bund Art & Design. To celebrate this debut and our encounter with West Bund in Shanghai, CHINI Gallery presents By the Water's Edge. The theme, centered around the concept of "water," symbolizes the vibrant allure and unique fusion of Eastern and Western cultures that define Shanghai.

 

This late autumn at West Bund, art once again breathes life into the riverside, echoing the philosophy of pioneering Chinese geometric abstract artist HO Kan, who draws from Laozi's Tao Te Ching in his reflection that "the highest good is like water." The sculptor LEE Kuang-Yu conveys serenity and gentleness in his work, embodying the tranquil nature of water; YANG Pei-Chen’s wood sculptures from the Transcribe Ancient Books series evoke the timeless, flowing passage of moments; and CHEN Cheng-Wei celebrates art’s nourishing power in his Blossoms of Life series.

Artist

霍剛 (1932-)

HO Kan

Ho Kan integrates Eastern calligraphy and the art of seal carving with a minimalist yet poetic visual language to develop his distinctive, Eastern lyrical abstraction. He starts with elemental points, and, from them, he creates his own philosophy about the arrangement of the image, validating the existence of each element.
Ho Kan integrates Eastern calligraphy and the art of seal carving with a minimalist yet poetic visual language to develop his distinctive, Eastern lyrical abstraction. He starts with elemental points, and, from them, he creates his own philosophy about the arrangement of the image, validating the existence of each element.

李光裕(1954-)

LEE Kuang-Yu

Lee employs signature techniques such as “piercing” to break open the closed structure of traditional sculpture, creating a distinctive formal and conceptual language of emptiness. His works embody an “Eastern void” where self and object dissolve, offering not only profound aesthetic value but also a contemplative reflection on the human condition, imbued with contemporary social relevance.
Lee employs signature techniques such as “piercing” to break open the closed structure of traditional sculpture, creating a distinctive formal and conceptual language of emptiness. His works embody an “Eastern void” where self and object dissolve, offering not only profound aesthetic value but also a contemplative reflection on the human condition, imbued with contemporary social relevance.

楊北辰 (1970-)

YANG Pei-Chen

Yang is one of the representative hyperrealist sculptors in the Chinese contemporary art scene. His works are all created out of complete wood blocks that are exquisitely carved by hand and elaborately colored for mimetic effect, rendering them extremely realistic and almost impossible to tell that they are wood sculptures.
Yang is one of the representative hyperrealist sculptors in the Chinese contemporary art scene. His works are all created out of complete wood blocks that are exquisitely carved by hand and elaborately colored for mimetic effect, rendering them extremely realistic and almost impossible to tell that they are wood sculptures.

陳承衛 (1984-)

CHEN Cheng-Wei

Chen is one of the leading contemporary figurative realist artists in China. In recent years, his Blossoms of Life series marks a shift from classical realism to a more symbolic and spiritual language, blending Eastern mural and Thangka traditions with Western Impressionist sensibilities in color and line to evoke themes of life energy and maternal love.
Chen is one of the leading contemporary figurative realist artists in China. In recent years, his Blossoms of Life series marks a shift from classical realism to a more symbolic and spiritual language, blending Eastern mural and Thangka traditions with Western Impressionist sensibilities in color and line to evoke themes of life energy and maternal love.
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