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Kwai Fung Hin returns to Art Basel Hong Kong for the fourth time with a selection of artworks by modern and contemporary masters Lalan, Li Huayi, Chi Wing Lo, Gérard Schneider, Pierre Soulages, Georges Mathieu, Jonas Wood, Yoshitomo Nara and Xue Song. Kwai Fung Hin is pleased to present works by artists whose extensive cultural experiences and global perspectives bridge the East and West in fresh and remarkable ways, and who have brought new dimensions to the canon of art history with their radical and uncompromising visions.
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Espace du dedans (1971) is a masterpiece from Lalan's "metaphorical landscapes" period of the 1970s. A multidisciplinary French-Chinese artist whose singular and avant-garde oeuvre was influenced by her background as a highly accomplished musician and dancer, Lalan's profound re-examination of her Chinese roots and meditation on the essence of Song Dynasty literati paintings during this period materialised in deceptively sparse compositions animated by a latent cosmic energy, a reflection of her liberated inner world.
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Lalan
Espace du dedans | Interior Space, 1971
Oil on canvas
130 x 195cm
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Another highlight is Chanting of the Moon II (2021), a rare and sublime ink and silver leaf on silk work by contemporary Chinese ink artist Li Huayi. A master of traditional Chinese brush and ink, Li's practice revitalises Chinese landscape painting traditions from the Song Dynasty through the lens of Western contemporary thoughts and approaches to create an unprecedented style of poetic, immersive dreamscapes that project light and boundless space.
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Li Huayi
Chanting of the Moon II, 2021
ink and silver leaf on silk
108 x 177.5 cm
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GEORGES MATHIEU
GRANDE SÈVE DE FEUX FOLLETS, 1986
OIL ON CANVAS
162 X 130 CM
French artist Georges Mathieu was a pioneer of Lyrical Abstraction in post-war Europe, and was declared "the strongest of new European painters" by the influential American post-war art critic Clement Greenberg. Kwai Fung Hin is pleased to present his large-scale canvas work Grande sève de feux follets (1986) from the "cosmic shift" period that witnessed the maturity of Mathieu's lyrical principles, with explosive compositions executed in pure, brilliant colours.
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Georges Mathieu, Grande sève de feuX follets, 1986 (detail)
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YOSHITOMO NARA
BROKEN HEART BENCH (NEW CASTLE VERSION), 2008
ACRYLIC ON WOOD
233.7 X 179.1 X 10CM
Yoshitomo Nara's Broken Heart Bench (New Castle Version) (2008) is one of the artist's monumental billboard paintings from the A-Z Project, the celebrated collaboration with the Japanese design group graf in the 2000s which explored the relationship between the individual, the space they inhabit and objects in their surroundings. His iconic and adorably complex young characters fuse Japanese visual traditions with Western popular culture, drawing on the artist's love of music and evoking the paradoxical joys and woes of childhood.
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PIERRE SOULAGES
PEINTURE 130 X 97CM, 1949
OIL ON CANVAS
130 X 97 X 2.5CMAlso presented at the fair is the masterwork Peinture 130 x 97 cm (1949) by Pierre Soulages, the renowned "painter of black and light" who is frequently described as France's most successful living artist. It was exhibited at Soulages' first solo exhibition at Galerie Lydia Conti that same year, and included in his first institutional retrospective which toured Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland in 1960–61. The Jaoul family acquired the work directly from the artist, keeping it in their collection for over 63 years and displaying it in the modernist Le Corbusier-designed Maisons Jaoul in Neuilly-sur-Seine, now a protected historical monument.
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Booth 1B26 ▏Kwai Fung Hin at Art Basel Hong Kong 2022
Fair Dates
25 - 29 May 2022
Venue
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Booth 1B26 | Kwai Fung Hin at Art Basel Hong Kong 2022: Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
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