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Volkswagen has been trending for a while in the social media sphere in recent years. Their retro vans and beetles have been remixed to unrecognisable magical form. So to see this at Art Basel is a surprise. The higher echelon of the art world often feel somewhat dated, filled with “old people” hiding behind the gates in their ivory towers. It is unclear if this means that they are rebranding, or perhaps simply that Asia is the “new world” in art as California is in the world of wines.

 

This work is by Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor (b. 1963), an artist born in Jakarta and studied at the Indonesian Art Institute, Yogyakarta. He got his idea of this piece from his personal perception that objects are products of a “transportation culture,” which induced hints and signs of spiritual emotion.

 

For this sculpture / installation, real parts from VW Beetle '53 is used as raw materials, and combined with aluminium and polyester to form this majestic sphere measuring 180 x 180 x 180 cm. Exposure to Indonesian contemporary artworks is a first for me at Art Basel Hong Kong, and I am seriously considering traveling to Indonesia for more.

 

Seriously. Crazyisgood. SML Love. VW lovers rejoice!

 

Ichwan Noor

Beetle Sphere, 2013

Aluminium, polyester, real parts from VW beetle '53, paint

180 x 180 x 180 cm

 

# Ichwan Noor

www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/?Action=showProduct&i...

www.mondecor.com/kuratorial/ichwan-noor-solo-exhibition-e...

 

# Art:1 by Mondecor Gallery

Jl. Rajawali Selatan Raya no. 3

Jakarta 10720

Indonesia

www.mondecor.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14135

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Ichwan Noor (b. 1963): Beetle Sphere, 2013 (Aluminium, polyester, real parts from VW beetle '53, paint)” / Art:1 by Mondecor Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14135

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Charming typographic installation with motion activated sensors. That said, I am personally a bit tired of seeing them. They mostly remind me of Edward Ruscha’s paintings with big type, except with added technology. When these first appeared in the art world I do like them but unfortunately not anymore. They become almost formulaic these days, but they are popular because obviously _some_ people love them.

 

Peter Liversidge (born 1973, Lincoln, England) is a British contemporary artist notable for his diverse artistic practice and use of proposals.

 

Over the course of the last 12 years, using an Olivetti typewriter, Liversidge has created proposals for exhibitions that range from the simple to the impossible. He experiments with what he describes as the "notion of creativity", often realised as objects, performances, or happenings over the course of an exhibition.

 

Liversidge says of his proposals that: “.. it’s important that some of the proposals are actually realized, but no more so that the others that remain only as text on a piece of A4 paper. In a sense they are all possible and the bookwork that collates the proposals allows the reader to curate their own show, and because of its size and scale the bookwork allows an individual to interact with each of the proposals on their own terms, one to one.”

 

Peter Liversidge

Hello, 2013

58 Light bulbs, powder coated steel, motion activated sensor

Unique at this size

53.5 x 267.9 x 18 cm

 

# Peter Liversidge

 

www.inglebygallery.com/artists/peter-liversidge/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Liversidge

 

# Ingleby Gallery

15 Calton Road

Edinburgh EH8 8DL

United Kingdom

 

www.inglebygallery.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.EOSM.03963

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Mixed Media Installation by Peter Liversidge: Hello, 2013 (58 Light bulbs, powder coated steel, motion activated sensor)” / Ingleby Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.03963

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8921138110/

   

At first I thought that this work was by Tony Oursler, who is the only artist I like who integrates videos in his work with other media. But it would appear that I have found someone I should keep an eye on—in China no less.

 

周啸虎 Zhou Xiaohu (b. 1960, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province) was one the of the first contemporary artists in China to work experimentally with sculptural ideas of video and animation. With a background in sculpture, oil painting and graphic design, Zhou’s work is a dynamic combination of these mediums, reflecting a world in which technology rules and the media is the pinnacle of propaganda and public influence.

 

Titled “America Loves Me”, this oil painting on aluminium plate comes come with an animated video as part of the piece which runs for 1 min 6 sec. It shows almost the same image as the painting, except that the shovel was seen digging dirt out from the tent.

 

As with the best contemporary artworks which I like, I found myself saying “WTF” out loud continuously for almost a minute. I have no idea what it is intended to say. Some day I would love to meet this guy. For now, my tiny brain is off to a reboot.

 

ZHOU Xiaohu 周啸虎

America Loves Me

2012

Oil painting on aluminium plate, animation video

217 x 122 cm

Animation video: 1 min 6 sec

Edition 2/2

 

# Zhou Xiaohu 周啸虎 (周嘯虎)

b. 1960, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

www.longmarchspace.com/artist/list_7_brief.html

  

# Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間)

Founded by Lu Jie in the 798 Art District of Beijing in 2002, Long March Space plays a vital role in pursuing new avenues of production, discourse, and promotion of contemporary art in China. Working to advance the careers of eighteen artists across three generations, the gallery looks to establish a portfolio of the most progressive artists working in contemporary China today.

 

4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100015

China

 

www.longmarchspace.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Installation by ZHOU Xiaohu 周啸虎 (周嘯虎): America Loves Me, 2012 (Oil painting on aluminium plate, animation video)” / Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間) / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13936

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8880963484/

 

Whereas having a chiseled body may be a physical ideal in the modern times, being fat was once considered a natural beauty in China. As early as Han Dynasty, the rounded figures used to be desired. And in the early to mid 1900s, when wars were fought across the nation, being fat was once considered a sign of being “well fed,” even though this notion has slowly dissipated.

 

The “Fatty” sculptural series by Chinese artist 牟柏岩 Mu Boyan (b. 1976) depicts a naked male figure in unimaginable position. Here he is seen hanging onto a ledge and would not let go. Some art critics see the figure as that of sumo wrestler, though I highly doubt that at Chinese artist would be referencing sports culture from Japan.

 

Similar to the laughing men of 岳敏君 Yue Minjun, you either love it or hate it, but the one thing you cannot do is forget about it. And in that sense it is a successful piece.

 

Truly demented. Crazyisgood. Just the kind of art I love.

 

牟柏岩 Mu Boyan (b. 1976 Yunan, China)

Dot

2013

Color on Stainless steel

142 x 37 x 42 cm

 

# 牟柏岩 Mu Boyan

b. 1976

+ 1993-1997: 中央美术学院 China Central Academy of Fine Arts

+ 1997-2002: BFA, Sculpture, China Central Academy of Fine Arts 中央美术学院雕塑系,获学士学位

+ 2002-2005: MFA, Sculpture, China Central Academy of Fine Arts 中央美术学院雕塑系,获硕士学位。

+ 2005: Teaches at China Central Academy of Fine Arts 中央美术学院

 

# Aye Gallery

Rm 601, Unit 3, Yonghe Garden, Yard 3, Dongbinhe Road, Dongcheng District

Beijing 100013

China

www.ayegallery.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

Sculpture by 牟柏岩 Mu Boyan (b. 1976 China): Dot (Fatty series), 2013 (Color on Stainless steel) / Aye Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14253

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A red sculptural doll lies happily on the flat and two-dimensional canvas filled with black and white characters drawn with lines waiting to come out.

 

Korean artist Eddie Kang’s mixed media piece is yet another fine example of WTF work seen recently at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 which short-circuited my tiny brain.

 

As always, I am further WTF’ed up by the gallery description, which you are free to read below. Korean pop art at its heights. The artist got his art education in film and animation at RISD, which might explain the style which he paints with.

 

Crazyisgood.

 

Eddie Kang

In the middle of

2013

mixed media on canvas

130 x 130 cm

 

# Eddie Kang

2003 Rhode Island School of Design (BFA in Fine Art: Film/Animation/Video)

 

Eddie Kang thematically centered on memories (reminiscences) continuously when he had expressed his works. To express the psychological status of the fiction space (Comic series), he adjusts the frame and juxtaposes the characters with the realities of life that has structural limits and develops an unfamiliar space time. Hereafter, the process of recalling his childhood illusion or series of events is to reconstruct the memories and combine (“Absorbing”, “KARMA” series) them together which is similar as the memory of systematic reconstruction. In places, the collision of reality and inner narrative exposes in his artworks. The behavior of sewing emblem that indulges the cherished objects’ absence during the artist’s childhood and studying abroad, while the subject of dolls and in between their relationship and the overwhelming robots that symbolize the external world events not only deployed as a symbolic placement but by narration which renders a distinctive structure. This description that continues the process of the stories’ context does not exist, but which suits with fiction that evolves to a positive result. The individual characters exist by themselves and continuously arouse hybridization, transmutation that proliferates and might be evidence of the past memories that harmonize with the reality; the process of recalling.

 

www.galleryihn.com/at/eddie/bio.html

 

# Gallery Ihn

73 Cheongwadae-ro Jongno-gu

110 - 220 Seoul

Korea, Republic Of

www.galleryihn.com/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Eddie Kang: In the middle of, 2013 (mixed media on canvas)” / Gallery Ihn / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13996.SQ

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9016293155/

 

Korean artist Insook Kim discovered the hotel by accident, just as it was being finished. Standing about third meters away in complete darkness, the she observed the lively activity inside the hotel after dark when the guests arrived.

 

With its panoramic windows, the guest see themselves as being anonymous in the dark, and so they are unaware that they are in fact taking part in a very public presentation for all to see. Given a bed and some mood lights, a musician was seen playing a cello while some explicit coupling can be clearly observed.

 

Human nature at its finest. At crowdy neighbourhoods in urban areas you often can see similar happenings in the dark, though I live in the middle of nowhere so I am unable to produce similar shots — I am somewhat ethically bound by my own creation. But here-in I salute the photographer who found this wonderland on a saturday night many winters ago.

 

This is one of my favorite photography works seen at ABHK recently.

 

(it is clear to me by now that galleries put up these very reflective frames so photojournalists cannot go and snap a high res photo for print, obviously. But interesting is how this reflective framing also allows me to photograph the people behind me… which is voyeuristic in its very own way)

 

Insook Kim

Saturday Night, 2007

C-print, diasec

230 x 370 cm

 

# Insook Kim 金仁淑(キム・インスク)

b. 1978 Osaka, Japan

based in Seoul Korea

+ 2000: BFA Fashion, Osaka Shoin Women's College, Osaka, Japan

+ 2002: Photography, Visual Arts College, Osaka, Japan

+ 2005: MFA in Painting, Photography & images, Hansung University Graduate School of Arts, Seoul, Korea

www.kiminsook.com/

 

# 313 Art Project

313 Dosan Daero, Gangnam-gu

Seoul 135-895

Korea, Republic Of

www.313artproject.com/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

Photography by 金仁淑 Insook Kim (b. 1978 Japan): Saturday Night, 2007 (C-print, diasec) / 313 Art Project / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14141

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9042178728/

 

Amazing work which looks like lenticular images by Brazilian artist Abraham Palatnik (b. 1928).

 

This genre of work is known as “kinechromatic,” a term coined in 1951 by Mario Pedrosa in an article in Tribuna da Imprensa in reference to Palatnik’s work. The artist initially created electro-mechanical devices, based on the kaleidoscopic principle, which projected a constantly changing pattern of coloured light on a screen.

 

This is not such device, but an acrylic on canvas painting, but it is no doubt that one influence another.

 

Love this.

 

Abraham Palatnik

W-427

2012

Acrylic on wood

110 x 170 cm

 

# Abraham Palatnik

Abraham Palatnik (born 1928) is a Brazilian artist and inventor whose innovations include kinechromatic art. He is Jewish and of Russian descent.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Palatnik

 

# Galeria Nara Roseler

 

Av Europa 655

São Paulo 01449-001

Brazil

 

www.nararoesler.com.br/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Abraham Palatnik (b. 1928 Brazil): W-427, 2012 (Acrylic on wood)” / Galeria Nara Roseler / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.04006

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When I picked up the book “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson, I have always imagined the tattoo on Lisbeth Salander (the main character) to be something similar to what is depicted here: a grand gesture of a flying dragon covering every inch of the girl’s back. But then the movie came out and it somewhat shattered my expectations.

 

I suppose my imagination of what a dragon tattoo should be is deeply influenced by my Chinese upbringing. These are the kind of dragon tattoos which I am used to seeing. I probably would not have the courage to photograph anyone on the street with dragon tattoos — although not necessarily related to gangs, these motifs are somewhat common among gang members depicted in HK movies so they give me creeps.

 

So it is good then that this was a tattoo con and no one would shoo me away…

 

The tattoo artist responsible for this is 御刺青纹身 Yu-Tattoo, which is based in Shanghai, China. www.yu-tattoo.com

 

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小龍女 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / 御刺青纹身 Yu-Tattoo (Shanghai, China) / 第一屆香港國際紋身展 1st International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention 2013 (HKTattooCon) / SML.20131006.7D.50751

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/11167258426/

 

This abstract oil painting by Chinese artist Liu Wei 刘韡 (劉韡) caught by eye as they look like computer circuit boards.

 

The series “Truth Dimension” were painted with the help of a computer. He first draws an image with the house, and then a computer program is used to “find and create new images” randomly into the artist’s own randomness [1].

 

It feels a bit of a cop-out to me, but one has to admit that this work is mostly amazing because it has left the computer screen and became a painting in oil. In this regard I see this mostly as an oil reproduction of the computer screen—and so perhaps it is hyperrealistic in that regard?

 

When the medium travels into another realm, they often feel more interesting. But what does it really say if the image itself may not really be considered a work of art before it was “transferred” to the oil medium?

 

LIU Wei

Truth Dimension No 7

2013

Oil on canvas

189 x 399 cm

 

# Liu Wei 刘韡 (劉韡)

1972 Born in Beijing, China

1996 BFA, China National Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Hangzhou

Lives and works in Beijing.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Wei_(artist)

 

# Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間)

Founded by Lu Jie in the 798 Art District of Beijing in 2002, Long March Space plays a vital role in pursuing new avenues of production, discourse, and promotion of contemporary art in China. Working to advance the careers of eighteen artists across three generations, the gallery looks to establish a portfolio of the most progressive artists working in contemporary China today.

 

4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100015

China

 

www.longmarchspace.com/

 

# Notes

1. Lehmann Maupin: Press Release: www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/2013-02-28_liu-wei/pres...

 

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“Painting by LIU Wei 刘韡 (劉韡): Truth Dimension No 7, 2013 (oil on canvas)” / Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間) / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13932

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More goodies from Yayoi Kusama—a gigantic stainless steel pumpkin in this case. Ota Fine Arts decided to give her a solo show at the event in collaboration with Victoria Miro Gallery so closed to 40 of her pieces were shown.

 

Here behind the sculpture you can also see some of her printmaking works, which are silkscreen on canvas. In the far back the yellow organic forms from wonderland far far away is a mixed media sculpture formed with stuffed fabric.

 

Yayoi Kusama

Pumpkin, 2010

Stainless steel

H220 x diameter 220 cm

H86 5/8 x diameter 65 5/8 in

 

# Yayoi Kusama

 

Yayoi Kusama (草間 彌生 or 弥生 Kusama Yayoi, born March 22, 1929) is a Japanese artist and writer.

 

www.yayoi-kusama.jp/‎

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yayoi_Kusama/

 

# Ota Fine Arts

www.otafinearts.com/

 

3F Piramide Building, 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku

Tokyo 106-0032

Japan

 

47 Malan Road, #01-23 Gillman Barracks

Singapore 109444

Singapore

 

# Victoria Miro

www.victoria-miro.com/

 

16 Wharf Road

London N1 7RW

United Kingdom

 

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+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13830.SQ

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Installation by Yayoi Kusama: Pumpkin, 2010 (stainless steel)” / Ota Fine Arts + Victoria Miro / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13830.SQ

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A protestor adorning the Guy Fawkes mask was seen in the rally to support Snowden in Central, Hong Kong today.

 

Originally from the movie V for Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes mask has become the international symbol for the online hacktivist group Anonymous, which might explain why they are often commonly called the “Anonymous mask”.

 

Although these masks are seen across the globe for different governmental protests relating to the global financial crisis such as the Occupy Movement, it is a rare sight in Hong Kong.

 

I had expected to see more of these today but this was the only man I saw among the hundreds who showed up today.

 

# References

1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask

2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

 

# SML Data

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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden (SnowdenHK)

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

匿名者 Anonymous (Guy Fawkes Mask) / 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden (SnowdenHK) / SML.20130615.7D.42258

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When this installation was first on view, many have questioned what it was intended to mean. The words “Same but not equal” was painted in all caps on top of a collage of Thai newspaper “khaosod” on linen canvas. The panel was placed on top of two piles of Thai rice. Although the pile of rice appears the same, one pile of rice is ordinary rice and the other, apparently, is premium export-grade Thai jasmine rice.

 

To one art blog Blouin Art Info [1], it is a commentary about ABHK, where Art Basel Hong Kong, though featuring many of the same galleries seen Art Basel Switzerland and Art Basel Miami, is in many ways different than their counterparts given the type of art works being shown in comparison.

 

To me, it is a commentary on a larger issue where news media speak of the same kind of political news though their analysis and content is highly different.

 

Art is up to all kinds of interpretation. I have no idea if the artist created this piece specifically for ABHK, if so then perhaps that does have some validity. It is interesting nevertheless, though I would most certainly not pay 100-150k USD for it which is apparently the asking price for this work [2].

 

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Untitled (same but not equal), 2013

Newspaper on Linen, Rice

286 x 220 cm

 

# Rirkrit Tiravanija

b. 1961 Buenos Aires, Argentina

1980 Carleton University

1980-1984 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada

1984 Banff Center School of Fine Arts

1984–86 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1985-86 Whitney Independent Studies Program

1982 Moved to New York, NY

 

Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thai: ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช, pronunciation: [rɯk-rit tira-wanit] or Tea-rah-vah-nit) is a contemporary artist residing in New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. His installations often take the form of stages or rooms for sharing meals, cooking, reading or playing music; architecture or structures for living and socializing are a core element in his work.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rirkrit_Tiravanija

  

# Shanghai Gallery of Art 沪申画廊

3F, No. 3, Zhong Shan Dong Yi Road

200002 Shanghai

China

www.shanghaigalleryofart.com/

 

# Notes

1. enjp.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/905969/same-but-not-equ...

2. artsy.net/artwork/rirkrit-tiravanija-untitled-same-but-no...

 

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

  

Mixed media installation by Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961): Untitled (same but not equal), 2013 (Newspaper on Linen, Rice) / 沪申画廊 Shanghai Gallery of Art / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14129

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9040698472/

 

A pre-pubescent girl appears lost in wonderland. Her dress is made with flowers, her hair turns into trees as the wind blows. Flocks of seagulls turn into clouds in air, which lead towards the deep space of galaxy. A 招き猫 Maneki-neko hair pin is seen on her hair, but it looks like that it might also be a kite flying in air.

 

The art of Aya Takano (タカノ綾 Takano Aya) is one coming straight from science fiction, or a mythology set in a distant future. As a Superflat artist, her work is deeply rooted in the language of manga and anime. Exotic animals and landforms combined with an urban city are common themes in her artwork, and are intended to show the juxtaposition between future and fantasy.

 

After graduating from college, Aya Takano became an assistant for 村上隆 Takashi Murakami, who became her first mentor and jump-started her career. She also work as a manga artist and science fiction essayist.

 

I will be frank and say that this is not really for me—I would have probably loved it though if the brushwork is more defined and precise—as it stands there is something rather amateurish about it—but it could also be intentional? It is hard to say.

 

Aya Takano (b. 1976, Japan)

Ejecta

Oil on canvas

606 x 500 mm

2013

 

# Aya Takano (タカノ綾 Takano Aya)

born December 22, 1976, Japan

Japanese Superflat artist, manga artist, and science fiction essayist.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Takano

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by タカノ綾 Aya Takano: Ejecta (Oil on canvas)” / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.03974

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When I posted artworks by Yoshitomo Nara and Yayoi Kusama on Facebook, artist Claudia Schwalb commented that she prefer works by Murakami, and we had an interesting discussion of whether or not it is fair to compare them to one with another.

    

Japanese contemporary artists are interesting as they often blur the lines between “fine” vs “commercial” or what is unfortunately coined as “high” vs “low”. The visual language which these artists employ are used by illustrators and designers alike, but the medium they choose is one which roots from more academic roots.

    

What is pop anyway? What is fine? What is high? What is low? I think that in the end none of that matters—what matters is that you respond to the works. Certainly we need no “academic eye” to evaluate our taste, do we?

    

Takashi Murakami

Pom & Me: On the Red Mound of the Dead

2013

Acrylic on canvas mounted on board

39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches

100 x 100 cm

    

# Takashi Murakami (b. 1962 Japan)

    

Takashi Murakami (村上隆 Murakami Takashi, born in Tokyo on February 1 1962) is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts.

    

He coined the term superflat, which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of post-war Japanese culture and society. Superflat is also used as a moniker to describe Murakami’s own artistic style and that of other Japanese artists he has influenced.

    

Murakami is the founder and President of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., through which he manages the careers of several younger artists and organizes the biannual art fair GEISAI.

    

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami

    

# Blum & Poe

2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90034

USA

www.blumandpoe.com/

    

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

    

“Painting by Takashi Murakami 村上隆: Pom & Me: On the Red Mound of the Dead, 2013 (Acrylic on canvas mounted on board)” / Blum & Poe / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13924.SQ

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A dirty bunny with a bow-tie sits quietly on a log in trance, completely ignoring the humans around him. People who walked by gave a curious glance but were all too WTFed-up to stand around to admire.

 

Much of American artist Marnie Weber (b. 1959)’s work revokes around a recurring cast of characters. Inspired by American Wsterns and Surrealism, her work is defined by a unique style of poetic narrative, which combines fantasy, animal costumes, and pastoral scenes.

 

This particular mixed media installation, titled ‘Log Lady & Dirty Bunny,’ was originally exhibited in 2009 for Weber’s first exhibition ‘The Truth Speakers, Sea of Silence’ with Simon Lee Gallery in London. The installation was intended to establish te relationships between the characters in the film ‘The Sea of Silence,’ which was the central focus of that show.

 

Marnie Weber

Log Lady & Dirty Bunny, 2009

 

# Marnie Weber

b. 1959

1981 B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1977-79 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marnie_Weber

www.marnieweber.com/

  

# Simon Lee Gallery

www.simonleegallery.com/

 

304, 3/F The Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street

Hong Kong, Central

China

 

12 Berkeley Street

London W1J 8DT

United Kingdom

 

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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Installation by Marnie Weber: Log Lady & Dirty Bunny, 2009 (Mixed Media)” / Simon Lee Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14087

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The rooftop of this Buddhist temple features intricate details of dragons painted in vibrant colors. These figures are traditionally used to decorate Chinese imperial roof tops, and it shows influence here towards temple designs. In historic China, the color yellow and the dragon figure is reserved for the emperors only. Here in Taiwan, such restriction obviously does not apply.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 7D + Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L. Processed in Lightroom 5.

 

# More Information

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_roof_decoration

 

佛寺蹲獸 Chinese imperial roof decoration (roof-figures) of a Buddhist temple / 台灣台北 Taipei, Taiwan / SML.20140210.7D.51740

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# 黃嘉麗 WONG Ka Lai, Kali

Monsters Family

kalai.w1990@gmail.com

+852 6849 7416

 

# Sponsor

+ China Union (Cashmere) International Group Limited

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

黃嘉麗 WONG Ka Lai, Kali: Monsters Family: Collection / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.7D.43076

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New York-based artist Petah Coyne has taken the term “mixed media” to new heights. Seen at the Galeries Lelong at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013, the “Untitled #1378 (ZELDA, Alabama Slammer Series)” has a media listing which reads like a laundry list of ingredients on a piece of candy. It is eye candy in this case, which includes silk flowers, a personal wax formula, candles, stands of ribbons, knitting needles, steel rods and more.

 

I do not know if it is specific to the very “friendly” Chinese audience, a lot of these sculptures seen at the art fair comes with a gigantic glass display case. There is a fantasy world housed inside her cage, waiting to come alive.

 

Enchanting. Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

# Art Info

 

Petah Coyne

Untitled #1378 (ZELDA, Alabama Slammer Series), 1997-2013

Silk flowers, specially-formulated wax, candles, acrylic paint, white pigment, pearl-head pins, artificial pearl strands, cast wax, statuary figure, cast wax hand sculptures, ribbon, knitting needles, steel rods, chicken-wire, washers, fabric, thread, wire, horse hair, Masonite, plywood, drywall, plaster, glue, filament, rubber, steel, wood and metal screw, maple, laminated Luxar.

81.2 x 35.75 x 35.75 inches (206.2 x 90.8 x 90.x cm)

 

# Petah Coyne

Born in New York, USA, 1953

Lives and works in New York

 

Petah Coyne is well known for her beautifully hand-crafted sculptures made from innovative materials such as silk flowers, velvet, ribbons, and pearls. In many of her works, Coyne adds layers of floral elements to adorn central figures, carefully covering the composition in her own unique blend of wax. Her sculptures often convey a complex narrative about innocence and seduction, life and death, and vulnerability and redemption as a mirror to real life. In 2010, Coyne presented a major solo exhibition at one of the United States’ largest contemporary art museums, MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petah_Coyne

 

# Galerie Lelong

 

Galerie Lelong is located in Paris, New York and Zurich.

The Paris gallery has been exhibiting recent works from artists of international standing since 1981. The 1980s were notable for artists who went on to become household names, including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francis Bacon, Eduardo Chillida, Paul Rebeyrolle and Pierre Alechinsky, but also for the next generation of artists: Konrad Klapheck, Jan Dibbets, Jannis Kounellis, Arnulf Rainer, Nicola De Maria and Jan Voss.

 

In the 1990s, the gallery hosted artists who represented major movements in contemporary art: Sean Scully, Günther Förg, Andy Goldsworthy, Karel Appel, Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Antonio Saura.

 

Since the turn of the century, Galerie Lelong has accentuated the geographical and expressive diversity of its artists: from sculpture and objects by Jaume Plensa, David Nash, Wolfgang Laib, Rebecca Horn, Barry Flanagan and Urs Lüthi to installations by Barthélémy Toguo, without forgetting painting, namely Robert Motherwell, Ryan Mendoza and Kate Shepherd.

 

Following the first personal exhibition of Louise Bourgeois in France in 1985, Galerie Lelong has also exhibited Nancy Spero, Ana Mendieta, Kiki Smith, Nalini Malani and Jane Hammond.

 

Galerie Lelong has a large publishing department which produces and distributes engravings, lithographs, digital prints and multiple objects, and collates these works in catalogues raisonnés.

 

It produces monumental sculptures to order for public spaces and private clients.

 

The gallery is present at the leading international contemporary art fairs (Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, Fiac Paris, Art HK, Arco Madrid, Art Brussels, Art Cologne).

 

The directors of the Gallery are Daniel Lelong, Jacques Dupin and Jean Frémon (Paris); Patrice Cotensin (editions); Mary Sabbatino (New York) and Anne Blümel (Zürich).

 

www.galerie-lelong.com/

 

13, rue de Téhéran

75008 Paris

France

 

528 West 26th Street

New York, NY 10001

USA

 

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Mixed Media Sculpture by Petah Coyne: Untitled #1378 (ZELDA, Alabama Slammer Series), 1997-2013” / Galerie Lelong / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13930

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8814624127/

American painter Tom Wesselmann (1931 – 2004) is regarded as one of the founding members of American Pop Art. Alongside his contemporaries Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and James Rosenquist, Wessellmann produced artworks using imagery seen in everyday popular culture.

 

He is famous for his “Great American Nude” series beginning in the 1960s, which played on the “corruption of Eros by a consumer society.” This series feature female figures in highly suggestive forms and painted in very patriotic primary colors in red, white, yellow and blue.

 

In the 1970s, Wesselmann’s work became increasingly sculptural and started working with constructions and assemblages, but in his final years, Wesselmann returned to the female form in the “Sunset Nudes” series (pictured) with very simple lines and forms. The artist acknowledge the influence of Mondrian by choosing titles that recall the earlier painter’s works, and is he seen with his own still life painting, but painted in a style which bears influence from Henri Matisse.

 

Tom Wesselmann

Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life, 2004

Oil on canvas

142.9 x 198.1 cm

56 1/4 x 78 inches

Signed and dated on canvas overlap verso: "Wesselmann 04"

 

www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/index.php5?id=1411584&...

 

# Tom Wesselmann

1931 Born Cincinnati, US

1949-1951 Hiram College, transferred to major in Psychology at the University of Cincinnati

1952 US Army

1954 Art Academy of Cincinnati

1956 Cooper Union

 

2004 Died (age 73)

 

Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931, Cincinnati – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wesselmann

 

# Bernard Jacobson Gallery

www.jacobsongallery.com/

 

17 East 71st Street

New York, NY 10021

USA

 

6 Cork Street

London W1S 3NX

United Kingdom

 

# SML Data

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+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Tom Wesselmann: Sunset Nude with Wesselmann Still Life, 2004 (Oil on canvas)” / Bernard Jacobson Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14062

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8923808313/

Here is another piece of work by Georgia Russell. Paper has been cut to form layers abstract brush strokes. It shows skills, determination and artistry by the artist.

 

Papercutting (Jianzhi 剪紙) is an art practiced in China since at least the 6th century AD. Red is the color for fortune and good luck in China. So when I say that the works from Art Basel Hong Kong has a very strong Asian representation—either through the origin of the artists or that with motifs originating from Asia, I do mean that quite literally. And some of the gallerists spoke to have expressed that they do intentionally curate the show for the Chinese audience, showing some of the pieces which they would not usually show if the art fair is held at other places in the world.

 

Another one of my favourite pieces of the show. Highly recommended.

 

(Pardon the reflection from the glass. Sometimes I think that they intentionally place shiny materials on these installation so no one can get a good shot of the artwork…)

 

Georgia Russell 喬治亞•羅素

Brushstroke (red)

2013

Cut Paper 剪紙; plexiglass 塑膠玻璃

70 x 89 x 11 cm

27 1/2 x 35 x 4 1/3 in

Titled verso lower left: Brushstroke

Signed and dated verso lower right: Georgia Russell 13

 

# Galerie Karsten Greve

www.galerie-karsten-greve.com

 

Drususgasse 1-5

50667 Cologne

Germany

 

5, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

# SML Data

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+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Georgia Russell: Brushstroke (red), 2013. (Cut paper; plexiglass)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13863

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8811429463/

  

The best time to photograph photographers is where there are rallies. I wonder if it may be too hot to keep a beard in Hong Kong. Good posture, nice shirt.

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

新聞攝影 Photojournalism / 香港人 Hong Kong Humans / SML.20130615.7D.42650.C23

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9133316692/

You don’t normally talk about sex in China, so it was fun to see this gigantic installation at Art Basel Hong Kong recently.

 

Titled “Play - (201301)”, it is a gigantic gothic cathedral made completely out of leather fetish gear. The artist responsible is 没顶公司 MadeIn Company, a contemporary art creation company founded by Chinese artist 徐震 Xu Zhen.

 

Quite a showpiece. When I saw this a crowd of high school girls were giggling non-stop around the installation. This might be the first and last time they would have ever experienced this—perhaps no one really knew what they are looking at except me?

 

Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

MadeIn Company

Play - (201301), 2013

 

# MadeIn Company

MadeIn Company was established in 2009 in Shanghai by Xu Zhen, it is a contemporary art creation company, focused on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities.

 

没顶公司是由艺术家徐震创办于2009年。 是一个当代艺术创作型公司,以生产艺术创造力为核心,致力于探索当代文化的无限可能。这对当代艺术的创作模式、收藏消费系统以及作者权等问题开始了全面挑战和标准的刷新。

 

沒頂公司是由藝術家徐震創辦於2009年。是一個當代藝術創作型公司,以生產藝術創造力為核心,致力於探索當代文化的無限可能。這對當代藝術的創作模式、收藏消費系統以及作者權等問題開始了全面挑戰和標準的刷新。

 

Personnel:

 

徐震 Xu Zhen, 金利萍 Vigy Jin, 关超群 (關超群) Alexia Dehaene, 俞玮 (俞瑋) Yu Wei, 陆平原 (陸平原) Lu Pingyuan, 郁天柱 (鬱天柱) Yu Tianzhu, 奶粉 Nathan Zhou, 林晓彤 (林曉彤) Louise Lam, 沈崴崴 Shen Weiwei, 汪嘉伦 (汪嘉倫) Wang Jialun, 沈卿 Shen Qing, 朱慧 Zhu Hui, 郭利 Guo Li, 余菲菲 Yu Feifei, 周菁 Zhou Jing, 王强 Wang Qiang, 张俐 (張俐) Zhang Li, 夏云飞 (夏雲飛) Xia Yunfei, 孙崴 (孫崴) Sun Wei, 何越 He Yue, 何雪峰 He Xuefeng, 仇银美 (仇銀美) Chou Yinmei, 李强 Li Qiang, 江国雄 (江國雄) Jiang Guoxiong

 

1/F, Bldg 8, 18 Wuwei Road, 200331 Shanghai, CHINA

上海普陀区武威路18号桃浦创意园8号楼1楼

  

www.madeincompany.com/

 

# Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間)

Founded by Lu Jie in the 798 Art District of Beijing in 2002, Long March Space plays a vital role in pursuing new avenues of production, discourse, and promotion of contemporary art in China. Working to advance the careers of eighteen artists across three generations, the gallery looks to establish a portfolio of the most progressive artists working in contemporary China today.

 

4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100015

China

 

www.longmarchspace.com/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Installation by 没顶公司 (沒頂公司) MadeIn Company: Play (201301), 2013 (leather, rope, mixed media)” / 长征空间 (長征空間) Long March Space / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14071

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8976721751/

Born in 1933 in a family of Swedish and Norwegian descent in North Dakota, American artist James Rosenquist grew up as the only child. His parents were amateur pilots and they moved from town to town looking for work before eventually settling in Minneapolis.

 

In this early years, he earned his living as a billboard painter. Such training would eventually allow the artist to flourish in the pop art scene by applying sign-painting techniques to the large-scale paintings he began creating in 1960.

 

Although he is well considered by critics to be a protagonist of the pop art movement, his work emerged separately from other pop art icons such as Warhol and Lichtenstein. He is especially known for combining fragmented images in abstract and provocative ways.

 

# Art Info

 

James Rosenquist (b. 1933)

Females and Flowers, 1984

Oil on canvas

68 x 112 inches (173 x 285 cm)

 

占士·勞森傑斯 (生於 1933)

女性與花, 1984

帆布油畫

68 x 112 英寸 (173 x 285 厘米)

 

# James Rosenquist

 

James Rosenquist (born November 29, 1933) is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement. Rosenquist was a 2001 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rosenquist

www.jimrosenquist-artist.com/

 

# Richard Gray Gallery

 

Founded in 1963. Specializing in contemporary art and European and American modern master paintings, drawings, and sculpture.

 

www.richardgraygallery.com/

 

1018 Madison Avenue, 4th Floor

New York, NY 10075

USA

 

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by James Rosenquist: Females and Flowers, 1984 (Oil on canvas)” / Richard Gray Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13865

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www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8838201582/

   

Chiharu Shiota (塩田 千春 Shiota Chiharu) is my favorite artist seen at Art Basel Hong Kong 2013. There are at least four sculptures from this series seen at the show. By the end of my visit I have learned her name intimately [1].

  

These series of sculptures all feature the same three raw materials: metal, threads and an everyday object. Their structural construction is the same. Color threads are secured to the metal frame where they travel in midair organically to form a cocoon-like structure to hold an everyday item—a children’s dress in this case—in mid air.

  

Great art to me always hold one property which is universal—pure magic through the process of an artist’s imagination. This is one such instance. Its presence is beyond what an image or words alone can transpire.

  

Highly recommended.

  

# Art Info

Chiharu Shiota

Zustand des Seins (Kinderkleid) / State of Being (Children’s Dress), 2013

Metal, children’s dress, red thread

120 x 80 x 45 cm

47.24 x 31.5 x 17.72 in

  

# Chiharu Shiota

  

Chiharu Shiota (塩田 千春 Shiota Chiharu?) is a Japanese installation artist born in 1972 in Osaka. She has been living and working in Berlin since 1996.

  

She studied at the Seika University in Kyoto and at various schools in Germany and is represented by ARNDT in Berlin and Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris.

  

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiharu_Shiota

  

# ARNDT

  

Arndt & Partner was established in 1994 as one of the first contemporary art galleries in former East Berlin with an international profile. In the gallery's eighteen years of operation, it has presented more than 270 exhibitions, produced sixty publications, and participated in approximately ninety international art fairs. Within this period the gallery has also operated spaces and offices in Zurich and New York City.

  

In 2010, the gallery changed its structure and location from Arndt & Partner at Zimmerstrasse, Checkpoint Charlie, to Arndt at Potsdamer Strasse, Schöneberg – again launching a new gallery district and adding to the everexpanding Berlin art scene.

  

In addition to the ongoing exhibition program of the Berlin gallery, Arndt is expanding its operations to the vibrant art landscapes of Asia – particularly Southeast Asia and the Pacific Region. While Arndt Berlin continues to present shows of international talents from around the world and to organize curatorial projects, Arndt also stages pop-up shows in unconventional, temporary spaces in Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore, and Jakarta.

  

In January 2013 Arndt opened a project space, viewing room, and Asian office in Singapore: Arndt Singapore is situated in Gillman Barracks, the new art destination located in the center of Singapore, which houses galleries and creative businesses as well as the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), opening in 2013.

  

Potsdamer Strasse 96

10785 Berlin

Germany

  

Lock Road 22 #01-35

108939 Singapore

Singapore

  

www.arndtberlin.com/

  

# Notes

1. It usually takes me years to learn any one artist’s name, and for me to fall in love with one within an afternoon says something.

  

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

  

“Mixed Media Sculpture by Chiharu Shiota: Zustand des Seins (Kinderkleid) / State of Being (Children’s Dress), 2013” / ARNDT / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.03954

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J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra (b. 1984 in Indonesia) is an Indoensian artist who is famous for his realistic black and white charcoal drawings. And it is easy to see why — from afar I had thought that it was a black and white photograph mainly because of the way he depicts lights and shadows with deep emotion.

 

Titled “The Forgotten Robe,” a catholic priest is seen pondering at a moment of regrets. He is known for appropriating famous art works while replacing himself as the central figure as he explores the inner struggles of the being facing himself, the social order or the moral dictates.

 

I rarely see charcoal works these days, so it definitely left a strong mark in my databank. Yet another Indonesian artist — only in ABHK.

 

J.A. Pramuhendra (b. 1984 Indonesia)

The Forgotten Robe

2013

charcoal on canvas

190 x 300 cm

 

# J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra

pramuhendra.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Ariadhitya_Pramuhendra

 

# Langgeng Gallery

Cempaka 8B

Magelang 56123

Indonesia

www.langgeng.net/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra (b. 1984 Indonesia): The Forgotten Robe, 2013 (charcoal on canvas) / Langgeng Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14162

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A tattoo convention—the first of its kind—was recently held in Hong Kong. Tattoo is traditionally much of a taboo in Chinese culture, so I went to check it out.

 

This image captures the spirit of the event best. Unlike many conventions which have sales people talking non-stop, this convention is mostly silent, with men (and women) lying down patiently waiting for skilled tattooist to needle ink onto their skin while the artists patiently wait for the work to proceed while layers of skin heals over the entirety of the day.

 

Most of the photographs I have taken from this day was made possible mostly because of the excellent low-light high ISO performance of the 6D combined with the super 100-400 which allows me to photograph people from afar without alerting their attention.

 

The event was held at the InnoCentre in Kowloon Tong from October 4-6, 2013. www.hktattoocon.com/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

男忍 Men of Patience / 第一屆香港國際紋身展 1st International Hong Kong China Tattoo Convention 2013 (HKTattooCon) / SML.20131006.6D.30157.BW

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Whether Edward Snowden is a “hero” is up for debate, but what the NSA PRISM whistleblower did achieve is providing evidence which many have suspected—that the US government is mining valuable data on the Internet.

 

Big data analysis is nothing new—companies who provide free internet services have been doing this for years. Why did you think that Twitter has no advertising but manage to get so much venture capital investments? It is because it is very easy to decipher trending opinions on the web.

 

Google’s company tagline has always been “Don’t be evil”—mostly because the same technology that can be used for good can be used for evil. Mint.com uses big data to track consumer spending and financial status. Biomedical researchers can use big data to track virus outbreaks. United State government certainly can use big data to track anti-terrorism activities — but the real question is if they would not mine the data for other purposes also.

 

The other claims which Snowden made and enraged many Hong Kong citizens are evidence which points to US Government’s active hacking of local universities and businesses. Hacking for personal gain is definitely criminal. When the US pointed at China for cyber attacks, they have utilised the media on the side to paint an ugly picture of China, but pointing fingers first simply shows hypocrisy on the country’s own politics. And this fact provided ample ammunition for political activists world wide.

 

# SML Data

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+ Series: SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

Is Snowden a Hero? / SnowdenHK: 香港聲援斯諾登遊行 Hong Kong Rally to Support Snowden / SML.20130615.7D.42298

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The hyperrealist / surrealist (hyper surrealist?) painting “Paradox” by Turkish artist Rasim Aksan is a collage of facial features from different people.

 

In the age of Photoshop I often wonder if I would like these as much if they are done on the computer instead of by hand. If done on the computer I would have expected better workmanship. When I spoke to many hyperrealist painters in the past they too told me that they work from photographs instead of painting from memories. So what you are looking is a very skilled human producer of a Photoshop rendering, perhaps?

 

The painting peeked my interest enough to take a photograph but in regarded to whether I would consider purchasing it for my collection my feeling is a bit lukewarm. It might also simply not be my “thing,” but it is interesting nevertheless.

 

Rasim Aksan

Paradox

2011

Acrylic airbrush on canvas

100 x 150 cm

 

# Rasim Aksan

Lives and works in Turkey. (no further data available)

 

# Galerist

 

Founded in 2001, Galerist is the pioneering contemporary art gallery that hosts exhibitions for Turkish and international artists in Istanbul’s two different locations, Tepebaşı and Hasköy.

 

Mesrutiyet Cad. No. 67/1 Beyoglu

34430 Istanbul

Turkey

 

www.galerist.com.tr/

 

# SML Data

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Rasim Aksan (Turkey): Paradox, 2011 (Acrylic airbrush on canvas)” / Galerist / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14124

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Even if you do not follow the art world, it is hard to not notice the works by Chinese artist 岳敏君 YUE Minjun—a man in tighty whities frozen in his laughter would put a smile in anyone’s face.

 

The men depicted in his paintings and sculptures are in fact the artist himself, and they are seen doing all kinds of activities which read more WTF than reality. If his work features more than one person, it would be a whole array of them. The joy is so overdone that it seems more like irony than reality. And that seems to be the artist’s intention, as his work has been described by theorist Li Xianting as “a self-ironic response to the spiritual vacuum and folly of modern-day China.”

 

Art critics have often associated Yue with the Cynical Realism art movement in contemporary Chinese art, although he himself rejects the label, while at the same time “doesn't concern himself about what people call him.”

 

YUE Minjun (b. 1962 China)

Free Sky No. 1, 2012

Oil on canvas

100 x 90 cm

39 3/8 x 35 3/8 in

 

岳敏君 (生於 1962年, 中國)

自由的天空 No. 1, 2012

布油畫

100 x 90 cm

39 3/8 x 35 3/8 in

 

# Yue Minjun

 

Yue Minjun (Chinese: 岳敏君; born 1962) is a contemporary Chinese artist based in Beijing, China. He is best known for oil paintings depicting himself in various settings, frozen in laughter. He has also reproduced this signature image in sculpture, watercolour and prints.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Minjun

 

# Galerie Daniel Templon

Founded in 1966

www.danieltemplon.com/

 

30, rue Beaubourg

75003 Paris

France

 

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# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by 岳敏君 Yue Minjun: 自由的天空 Free Sky No. 1, 2012 (Oil on canvas)” / Galerie Daniel Templon / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14035

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It’s Nara’s puppies! Need I say more? Loooove. :)

 

Yoshitomo Nara

Big Pup Head, 2007

FRP (Fibre-reinforced plastic)

59 x 48 1/2 x 49 1/4 in

150 x 123 x 125 cm

 

# Yoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara (美智奈良 Nara Yoshitomo, born 5 December 1959 in Hirosaki, Japan) is a Japanese artist. He lives and works in Tokyo, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. He is represented in New York City by Pace Gallery, in Los Angeles by Blum & Poe and in London by Stephen Friedman Gallery.

 

Nara received his B.F.A. (1985) and an M.F.A. (1987) from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Between 1988 and 1993, Nara studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Germany.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitomo_Nara

 

# Blum & Poe

 

2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90034

USA

 

www.blumandpoe.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:15:07+0800

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+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13914

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Sculpture by 美智奈良 Yoshitomo Nara: Big Pup Head, 2007 (FRP)” / Blum & Poe / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13914

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Artworks which are character-driven is an unusual thread seen in Asian contemporary artworks. In Japanese pop art, Yoshitomo Nara has his innocent girls and lonesome puppies. In Indonesia, artist Samsul Arifin created a whole series of work surrounding a kapok-stuffed doll with goggly plastic eyes—Goni.

 

The sculpture in the foreground is titled “Musafir Artist”, where Goni is seen riding a camel-like figure while carrying a bag of artist supplies with him on a journey out. In the back, a painting (triptych) titled “Petualang Ilmu di Negeri Unta” (Knowledge of the adventurous camel? Google Translate).

 

To the gallerists whom I talked to, Goni is seen as the artist’s own avatar, and through this avatar the artist is writing his own autobiography in the works of his art.

 

Samsul Arifin was born in 1979. I was as surprised as you to find someone younger than me with works at Art Basel. Indonesia is truly full of surprises. You see why I am planning for a visit soon?

 

Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

Samsul Arifin (b. 1979 Indonesia)

Musafir Artist #1

2013

Resin, leather, jute, steel, wood

240 x 210 x 60 cm

 

Samsul Arifin (b. 1979 Indonesia)

Petualang Ilmu di Negeri Unta

2013

acrylic on canvas

300 x 600 cm (triptych)

 

# Samsul Arifin

b. March 5, 1979 in Malang, Indonesia

 

# Nadi Gallery

Based in Jakarta, Nadi Gallery is an art gallery founded by Biantoro Santoso, a young collector of Indonesian art. The Indonesian word nadi means "aorta", "artery", "vein" that evokes the idea of signaling pulsation. Without pulsation, the aorta soon looses its significance for life. As the name indicates, the Gallery's principal programs of exhibitions have been aspiring to present the pulses of recent developments in contemporary art in Indonesia.

 

Jl. Kembang Indah III Blok G3 no. 4-5 Puri Indah

Jakarta 11610

Indonesia

www.nadigallery.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13970

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Mixed Media Sculpture by Samsul Arifin (b.1979): Musafir Artist #1, 2013 (“Goni”: Resin, leather, jute, steel, wood)” / Nadi Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13970

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李占洋 Li Zhanyang’s sculpture gives a glimpse of what it is like to live in China. Born in Changchun, Jilin Province in 1969, he has been drawn to crowds since he was a child. So when he moved to a big city like Beijing in his late twenties, he found himself spending hours in bars, gambling dens, railway stations (pictured), brothels and bus stops. Afterwards he would go home and sculpt the scenes he has observed from memory.

 

When I visited cities in mainland China, I am also in awe with the amount of people everywhere, all minding their own business. In that regard, Li Zhanyang’s sculptural interpretation is a true reflection of the modern China.

 

This work is like a holographic 3D video still from a capture. And it was funny to me as it features three gigantic signage types which can be seen across all railway stations in China:

 

1. “第三候車大厅” (Train waiting area no. 3). The often obnoxiously huge characters which designate the name of the location usually placed on the facade of Chinese architectures.

 

2. “严禁也携带易燃易爆有毒等危险品进站上車” (Do not bring flammable, combustible, toxic or other dangerous objects into the station nor alight the trains). Official warning signs plastered everywhere at the station.

 

3. “嘉陵摩托” (Jialing Motors). Advertising everywhere there is space.

 

In this artwork, there are the Chinese Literation Army attempting to the keep the crowd in line, the bourgeois making space. Sea of people everywhere. Advertising everywhere. Modern China is full of chaos. And this artwork captures that reality honestly and magically.

 

Li Zhanyang

Railway Station

2004-2006

Bronze, Ed. 2/4

198.2 x 42.5 x 98.5 cm / 78 x 16 3/4 x 38 3/4 in

Signed, dated and numbered recto lower left: Li Zhanyang 2004 2/4

 

李占洋

火車站

2004-2006

青銅, Ed. 2/4

198.2 x 42.5 x 98.5 cm / 78 x 16 3/4 x 38 3/4 in

簽名, 日期和編號於作品正面左下: Li Zhanyang 2004 2/4

 

# Li Zhanyang (b.1969)

Born in Changchun, Jilin Province, China.

Lives and works in Beijing and Chongqing, China.

 

# References

+ www.lizhanyang.com/

+ www.whiterabbitcollection.org/artists/li-zhanyang/

+ www.galerieursmeile.com/artists/artists/li-zhanyang/

 

# Galerie Karsten Greve

www.galerie-karsten-greve.com

 

Drususgasse 1-5

50667 Cologne

Germany

 

5, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

# SML Data

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+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13894

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Sculpture by Li Zhanyang 李占洋: Railway Station (火車站), 2004-2006. (青銅 Bronze, Ed. 2/4)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Mortiz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13894

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Woodcut spots from Damien Hirst. This series need no introduction. Each print is an abstract representation of a biochemical compound, expressed as a spot color from circular wood cuts.

 

It is hard for me to talk about Damien Hirst. On the one hand, I see a gifted and very talented artist who produces brilliant works. On the other, an artist-turned-factory who has become so commercialized that he would need to come up with all kinds of methods to pump up works to please the high demands for his work.

 

Andy Warhol likes to say that “making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.” But I tend to have a problem with art created purely to make money. Mondrian’s early works are brilliant and full of ideas, but the Mondrian after he has becoming the darling of his times left little to be desired.

 

These “limited edition prints” is probably the worse of this trend—making quick bucks in the art market, each asking approximately four-thousand pounds on today’s market. I have no doubt that these works are key to supporting the artist’s livelihood and thus allows him to be the richest living artist in Britain.

 

Art to me is pure magic, but in these works I see nothing but a money-making machine disguised as something fine but has no soul except the greed within.

 

Damien Hirst

Thr-ser (1-inch woodcut spot)

2012

Woodcut

55 editions

Hand signed and numbered

 

A series of woodcut printed on 410 gsm Somerset White textured paper. Signed by the artist on the front and numbered on the reverse in an edition of 55.

 

# Damien Hirst

 

Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst

 

# Paragon Press

www.paragonpress.co.uk/

6 Wetherby Gardens

London SW5 0JN

United Kingdom

 

# SML Data

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+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.EOSM.04002.SQ

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Limited Edition Prints by Damien Hirst: Thr-ser, 2012 (1-inch woodcut spot)” / Paragon Press / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.04002.SQ

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It has been said that contemporary art is an acquired taste, and it matters not whether you like it or hate it. Good art invites a dialog—hating it is still a successful piece as long as you care enough to form an opinion. Bad art, on the other hand, invites no dialog at all—indifference is not an opinion.

 

Titled “Garbage Buddha,” this mixed media installation by Tibetan artist Tsherin Sherpa appears to be a commentary on Buddhist religion. The artist spent years studying buddhist philosophy under the tutelage of various Buddhist Masters in Nepal. The intention of the artist though is unknown.

 

It is a dimension variable installation — true that. If I have this on view at my home no one will be able to tell a difference between my work space and the art work for sure.

 

Crazyisgood.

 

Tsherin Sherpa (b. 1968 Tibet)

Garbage Buddha

2013

Mixed media

Dimension variable

Main section 127 x 152.cm

50 x 50 in

 

# Tsherin Sherpa

Born in 1968, lives and works in California, USA

+ 1991-1996: Buddhist Philosophy under the tutelage of various Buddhist Masters, Nepal

+ 1988-1989: Computer Science and Mandarin, Taipei, Taiwan

+ 1983-1988: Traditional Tibetan Painting apprenticeship with Master Urgen Dorje Sherpa (father)

 

tsherinsherpa.com/

 

# Rossi & Rossi

www.rossirossi.com/

 

16 Clifford Street

London W1S 3RG

United Kingdom

 

Yally Industrial Building, Unit 3C, 6 Yip Fat Street

Hong Kong, Wong Chuk Hang

China

 

# SML Data

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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14143

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

Mixed media installation by Tsherin Sherpa (b. 1968 Tibet): Garbage Buddha, 2013 / Rossi & Rossi / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14143

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What’s so awesome about a black and white image of a US fighter jet? Nothing—except when you realised that it was a charcoal drawing and not a photo. Seriously.

 

Robert Longo (born 1953-01-07 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter and sculptor. Even when I was standing right next to the drawing I could not tell that it was a drawing.

 

Those of you who have worked with charcoal knows that being able to achieve hyperrealist drawings such as this is no small feast.

 

Crazyisgood!

 

Robert Longo

Untitled (F-15 Eagle), 2012

Charcoal on mounted paper

165.1 x 274.3 cm

65 x 108 in

RLO 1317

 

# Robert Longo

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Longo

www.robertlongo.com/

 

# Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ropac.net/

 

7, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

69 avenue du Général Leclerc

93500 Paris-Pantin

France

 

Mirabellplatz 2

5020 Salzburg

Austria

 

# SML Data

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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14234

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

Hyperrealist drawing by Robert Longo: Untitled (F-15 Eagle), 2012 (Charcoal on mounted paper) / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14234

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It is no secret that I love typography in paintings, and every now and then I would come across some really bizarre work.

 

Harland Miller is both a writer and artist. His debut novel titled “Slow Down Arthur Stick to Thirty” was published in 2000 to critical acclaim. But he is best known for his giant canvases of Penguin Book covers.

 

I can’t help but to find him similar to Ed Ruscha in America, who also paint large type on his work. This painting seen at Art Basel Hong Kong recently is not his best, I think — but on his personal web site at www.harlandmiller.com/ there are quite a bit of fantastic WTF irony which are witty and sweet — definitely worthy of a visit.

 

In his own words: “Painting is the worst medium to express narrative, but perhaps the best to hit a nerve.”

 

Harland Miller

I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember

2013

Oil on canvas

252 x 156 cm

 

# Harland Miller

b. 1964 York, England

lives in London, England

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Miller

 

# Ingleby Gallery

15 Calton Road

Edinburgh EH8 8DL

United Kingdom

www.inglebygallery.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Camera: Canon EOS M

+ Lens: Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 STM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.EOSM.03961

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Harland Miller (b. 1964 UK): I’ll Never Forget What I Can’t Remember, 2013 (Oil on canvas)” / Ingleby Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.EOSM.03961

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“This collection is inspired by global riot initiated by teenagers, local political and social issues. Traces of it can be seen from the pattern on fabrics, details on accessories to the vibe of the final outfits as a whole. This collection is also one of the so many ways to celebrate the waking up of youngsters from ignorance, self-egos and work their ways out against the corrupted social value, ideology and bureaucracy, of which their actions are always regarded as a form of social disturbance. on top of that, it allows me to express my own personal perspective.”—Rhyox Wan, designer

 

"…and we live off of the unsettling soul”

 

# WAN Wai Kit, Rhyox

…and we live off of the unsettling soul

 

# Sponsors

+ Fang Brothers Knitting Ltd.

+ UPW

+ Winning Textile Co., Ltd.

+ Awesome Mojito Handmade Leather Products

+ Long Tai Hong (Holding) Limited

Galería Leandro Navarro in Madrid, Spain gave a solo show to Picasso during Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.

 

Titled “Les Trois Baigneuses” or “The three bathers” in English, this painting was drawn on September 15, 1932 while Picasso is having his summer vacations in the South of France—at Boisgeloup.

 

Picasso is one of my favorite artists of all times. As a creator, his work is always changing and fresh, independent of gallery demands. His lines are brief, which shows decisiveness and maturity of a painter.

 

Pablo Picasso

Les Trois Baigneuses

Signed and dated lower right Picasso

Boisgeloup 15 Septembre 1932

Oil on canvas

10 5/8 x 16 1/8 in

27 x 41 cm

Painted 1932-09-15

 

# Description by the Gallery

In 1932, inspired by his summer vacations in the South of France, Picasso executed a number of paintings of figures on a beach. This work is most closely related to two similar sized compositions, both titled Baigneuses, painted during the same period (Zervos, vol.8, nos. 61 and 62). The first (no. 61) was painted one week earlier on September the 6th and was also dean with a dense line and darkly coloured passages in the background. That work appears to contain four figures in a mostly triangular grouping. The present work contains three figures and the added element of the dressing huts in the right background. The final work (no. 62) painted on the 28th of November shows the figures more clearly delineated and the whole composition is far more sophisticated. While the last work most clearly shows the figures as play, this and the earlier painting both have an element of foreboding as the lower figure relates to the image of the drowned woman which appears in other beach scenes. With this association in mind, the scene shifts between exuberant play and a moment of highly charged distress.

 

# Provenance

Paris Galleries, New York

Richard A. Loeb, New Jersey

Constance W. Stafford

Private collection, California

 

# Exhibited

Stuttgart, Staastgalerie, Picasso - Betende, 18 June - 16 Ocrober 2005, no. 72, p. 111 (Illustrated in colour)

 

# Bibliography

The Picasso Project, ed. Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Surrealism, 1930-36, San Francisco 1996, no. 32-128, p. 136 (Illustrated)

 

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Maya Widmeiser Picasso and dated Paris, 22 January 2007.

 

# Galería Leandro Navarro

Amor de Dios, 1

28014 Madrid

Spain

www.leandro-navarro.com/

 

# SML Data

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+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13976

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Pablo Picasso: Les Trois Baigneuses (Signed and dated lower right Picasso, Boisgeloup 15 Septembre 1932, Oil on canvas)” / Galería Leandro Navarro / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13976

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In May 2008, just months before the Beijing Olympics, a devastating earthquake struck Sichuan Province, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Chinese artist 陳秋林 Chen Qiulin’s 漂浮Floating series responds directly to that catastrophe, adding a distinctly personal tenor to an event many only learned about through the media.

 

These floating human figures, sculpted in papier-mâché made primarily with paper scavenged from the detritus of the disaster, have the rough surfaces of industrial materials. At first glance, their texture, heft, and mass resemble that of concrete structures—a reference to the recent industrialization of the artist’s homeland.

 

Yet as the forms sway gently in space, suspended by nearly invisible pieces of fishing line, their apparent heaviness gives way to an essential weightlessness. The sculptures’ movements likewise suggest multiple possible readings, alternately evoking the graceful postures of dance and traumatic visions of bodies falling in space. Personal history drives Chen’s practice, but in creating such plays between opposites, she asks viewers to bring their own histories to their encounters with her work.

 

(retrieved from gallery description with some edits, 1)

 

陳秋林 Chen Qiulin

漂浮 Floating No. 1, 2008-2009

Edition 3

Sculpture, Wastepaper Pulp

172 x 89 x 60 cm

 

# Notes

1. www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/index.php5?id=1411158&...

 

# Chen Qiulin 陈秋林 (陳秋林)

Chen Qiulin (b. 1975) is an emerging artist who is deeply concerned with the impact of urbanization in China. Her practice includes performance, photography, video, installation and most recently sculpture. She combines personal history with themes of demolition, migration, and transformation to express the reality for "ordinary people" living in China today. Born in Hubei Province, Chen Qiulin graduated from the Printmaking Department at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts and currently divides her time between Chengdu and Beijing.

 

www.chartcontemporary.com/artist_chen_qiulin.html

 

# A Thousand Plateaus Art Space 千高原艺术空间 (千高原藝術空間)

87 Fangqin Street

Chengdu 610041

China

 

www.1000plateaus.org/

 

# SML Data

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+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13846

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Sculpture by Chen Qiulin 陈秋林 (陳秋林 b. 1975 China): Floating 漂浮 No. 1, 2008-2009 (Wastepaper Pulp)” / A Thousand Plateaus Art Space 千高原艺术空间 (千高原藝術空間) / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13846

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As Hong Kong’s only university offering degrees in fashion design, the Institute of Textiles & Clothing (紡織及製衣學系, ITC) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (香港理工大學, PolyU) organizes a fashion show for their best and brightest students from their graduating class each year.

 

This year, 24 students from the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Scheme in Fashion and Textiles or the Higher Diploma Scheme in Fashion and Textile Studies were showcased, each showing 6 looks on the runway.

 

The event was held on June 26th, 2013 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (香港會議展覽中心, HKCEC).

 

Pictured is a panorama of the stage at the afternoon show before it started. It is handheld, so you will see imperfect seams everywhere, but it should hopefully illustrate the crowd and stage nicely. Stitched together using 13 captures with the 6D and 24-70 f/2.8L.

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-06-23T15:51:46+0800

+ Dimensions: 27530 x 12161

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/2.8

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ ISO: 1600

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM

+ Panorama FOV: 143 degree horizontal, 70 degree vertical

+ Panoramic Projection: Spherical

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Autopano Giga 3, Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130626.6D.16729-SML.20130626.6D.16741-Pano.i13.143x70

+ Series: PolyU Fashion Show 2013, 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, 全景攝影 Panoramic Photography

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

天橋走秀全景 Catwalk Runway Panorama / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.16729-SML.20130626.6D.16741-Pano.i13.143x70

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Chinese artist 朱金石 Zhu Jinshi’s abstract paintings are incredible—mostly as they resemble more as sculptures than paintings. Born in Beijing in 1954, the artist is known to apply his oil paint with spatulas and shovels.

 

“Thickness … visually guides you to change your worldview,” he said. “It can be used as a point of breakthrough.”

 

This head-on view does not really showcase the brilliance of this work, so I have also photographed another one from the side so you can see how the oil paints leave the canvas and protrude a great few inches from the surface.

 

Zhu Jinshi was born in Beijing, China in 1954, where he currently lives and works.

 

Zhu Jinshi 朱金石

Great White Shark No. 1, 2012

Oil on canvas

70 7/8 x 63 inches

180 x 160 cm

 

# Zhu Jinshi 朱金石 (b. 1954 Beijing, China)

www.blumandpoe.com/exhibitions/zhu-jinshi

 

# Blum & Poe

2727 S. La Cienega Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90034

USA

 

www.blumandpoe.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:15:53+0800

+ Dimensions: 2656 x 2961

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/9.0

+ Focal Length: 20 mm

+ ISO: 400

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13919

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by 朱金石 Zhu Jinshi: Great White Shark No. 1, 2012 (oil on canvas)” / Blum & Poe / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13919

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More work from A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler) seen at the Art Basel Hong Kong which I liked.

 

The primitive cave paintings at Lascaux are often considered by art historians as the beginning of art, and in many ways Penck’s stick figures and his flat and pictographic symbols resemble that of the past as well. In some ways they remind me of the drawings by Keith Haring, but obviously Penck came from a completely different line.

 

It looks almost like an artefact justifying the “ancient aliens” theory by many ufologists, but of course it was painted rather recently. It is fantastic though.

 

Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

A.R. Penck (b. 1939-10-05, Germany)

The Cosmonaut (Center), 1991

Oil on canvas

67 x 59 inches

170 x 150 cm

RP 738

 

# A.R. Penck

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._R._Penck

www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4546

  

# Michael Werner Gallery

 

www.michaelwerner.com/

 

4 East 77th Street

New York, NY 10075

USA

 

22 Upper Brook Street

London W1K 7PZ

United Kingdom

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:11:29+0800

+ Dimensions: 2405 x 2709

+ Exposure: 1/50 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 32 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13901

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

  

“Painting by A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler): The Cosmonaut (Center), 1991 (oil on canvas)” / Michael Werner Gallery / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13901

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# 黃嘉麗 WONG Ka Lai, Kali

Monsters Family

kalai.w1990@gmail.com

+852 6849 7416

 

# Sponsor

+ China Union (Cashmere) International Group Limited

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

黃嘉麗 WONG Ka Lai, Kali: Monsters Family: Look 5 / PolyU Fashion Show 2013 / SML.20130626.6D.17004

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When does street art end and fine art begins? It is hard to make that distinction anymore, and the pieces seen at ABHK certainly reflects the trend.

 

For over 40 years, two artists in the UK collaborated under the name “Gilbert & George,” which is comprised of Gilbert Proesch (b. 1943-09-17 in San Martin de Tor, Italy) and George Passmore (b. 1942-01-08 in Plymouth, UK).

 

This mixed media painting titled “Jacksie” were done in 2008, when both artists are well in their 60s, but there is no shortage of WTF in their work—which has elements similar to that of graffiti seen on the streets of London except that they are shown in well known galleries.

 

It is awesome to find a partner in crime—life long marriage in art. Sweet.

 

Gilbert & George

Jacksie, 2008

Mixed Media

254 x 453 cm

100 x 178.35 in

 

# Gilbert & George

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_%26_George

 

# Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ropac.net/

 

7, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

69 avenue du Général Leclerc

93500 Paris-Pantin

France

 

Mirabellplatz 2

5020 Salzburg

Austria

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T18:28:34+0800

+ Dimensions: 5068 x 2805

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/4.0

+ Focal Length: 31 mm

+ ISO: 100

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.14232

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

Gilbert & George: Jacksie, 2008 (Mixed Media) / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.14232

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Georgia Russell (b. 1974) is a Scottish artist who slashes, cuts and dissects printer matters, music scores, maps, books, newspapers and photographs into beautiful sculpted forms.

 

This particular piece caught my attention mostly as it bears resemblance to African masks—though its execution is abstract in nature. In some ways it reminded me of the “OMG LOL” sculpture by Michael Mandiberg [1] which I saw in 2009 at Eyebeam in New York. Both use a large hard cover book as their raw materials; both cut them out and turn them into something else. But Manidberg’s piece is one which talks specifically to the technological generation which we are in, where as Russell’s piece is organic in its formation and subconsciously references history in my own memory.

 

Another fine example of how an everyday object transformed through pure imagination into one such is fantastically extraordinary. Crazyisgood. SML Love.

 

Georgia Russell studied Fine art at Aberdeen University and the Royal College of Art and is a visiting lecturer at universities and art schools.

 

Georgia Russell 喬治亞•羅素

Unknown remedy I

2013

Cut Paper 剪紙; plexiglass 塑膠玻璃

91 x 65 x 65 cm

35 3/4 x 25 2/3 x 25 2/3 in

 

# Notes

1. Sculpture: OMG LOL by Michael Mandiberg / Eyebeam Art + Technology Center Open Studios: Fall 2009 / 20091023.10D.55420.P1.L1. / SML: www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4041872282/

 

# Galerie Karsten Greve

 

www.galerie-karsten-greve.com

 

Drususgasse 1-5

50667 Cologne

Germany

 

5, rue Debelleyme

75003 Paris

France

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T15:38:46+0800

+ Dimensions: 3648 x 5472

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 24 mm

+ ISO: 320

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13859

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Georgia Russell: Unknown remedy II, 2013. (Cut paper; plexiglass)” / Galerie Karsten Greve AG St. Moritz / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13859

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Two people face each other. A man on the right sitting on his own giving a glance. The woman does not gaze back—she is too busy texting on her cell phone. In between there are some form of lights—I do not know what they are. Perhaps they are traffic signs. They could also be a reference to the LED pulses of electronic devices. The three paintings are grouped together. They are connected yet separated.

 

Contemporary Chinese art is interesting to me as they deal with something both familiar and distant. Growing up in Hong Kong, I am well versed in Chinese history, but that of modern communist China is one which is unfamiliar to me. Chinese contemporary works root from something completely alien because the culture of Hong Kong is also very different than that in China.

 

A graduate of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, WANG Jianwei 汪建伟 (汪建偉 b. 1958 Sichuan Province, China) is a Chinese artist best known for his installation and video works. ‘Connection’ (鏈接) and ‘relationship’ (關聯) have been the key phrase in his vocabulary.

 

(Note: the reference image on Art Basel’s website shows the middle panel upside down. It is unclear if the website made a mistake or whoever installed this painting at the HKCEC did)

 

WANG Jianwei 汪建伟 (汪建偉)

Surface II, 2013

overall: 200 x 429 cm

each panel: 200 x 143 cm

This work is composed of 3 panels

 

# WANG Jianwei (b. 1958 Sichuan Province, China)

+ Art|Basel Hong Kong: WANG Jianwei: Surface II: www.artbaselhongkong-online.com/index.php5?id=1410208&...

+ 汪建伟 WANG JIANWEI: www.wangjianwei.com/

+ Long March Space: Artists: WANG Jianwei: www.longmarchspace.com/artist/list_28_brief.html

+ 长征空间: 艺术: 汪建伟: www.longmarchspace.com/artist/list_28_brief.html?locale=z...

 

# Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間)

Founded by Lu Jie in the 798 Art District of Beijing in 2002, Long March Space plays a vital role in pursuing new avenues of production, discourse, and promotion of contemporary art in China. Working to advance the careers of eighteen artists across three generations, the gallery looks to establish a portfolio of the most progressive artists working in contemporary China today.

 

4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District

Beijing 100015

China

 

www.longmarchspace.com/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:23:17+0800

+ Dimensions: 5277 x 2681

+ Exposure: 1/40 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 21 mm

+ ISO: 1250

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'59" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13934

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Paintings (Triptych) by WANG Jianwei 汪建伟 (汪建偉): Surface II, 2013” / Long March Space 长征空间 (長征空間) / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13934

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“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”—Hofmann

 

Hans Hofmann (March 21, 1880 – February 17, 1966) was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter. He believed that abstract art was a way to get at the important reality.

 

Starting at a young age, Hofmann gravitated towards science and mathematics. At age sixteen, he started work with the Bavarian government as assistant to the director of Public Works where he was able to increase his knowledge of mathematics. He went on to develop and patent such devices as the electromagnetic comptometer, a radar device for ships at sea, a sensitized light bulb, and a portable freezer unit for military use. Even with such great abilities in science and mathematics, Hofmann became interested in creative studies, beginning educational art training after the death of his father.

 

Hofmann’s art work is distinguished by a rigorous concern with pictorial structure, spatial illusion, and color relationships.

 

Hans Hofmann (1880-1966)

Shifting Planes

1947

Oil on wooden panel

88.9 x 114.3 cm

35 x 45 inches

 

# Hans Hofmann

+ 1880-03-21: Born Weißenburg, Germany

+ 1966-02-17: Died (aged 85)

+ Movement: Abstract Expressionism (AbEx)

+ Influenced by: Henri Matisse, Robert Delaunay

+ Influenced: Lee Krasner, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers, Wolf Kahn

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hofmann

 

# Galerie Hans Mayer

Grabbeplatz 2

40213 Dusseldorf

Germany

www.galeriehansmayer.de/

 

# SML Data

+ Date: 2013-05-23T16:01:52+0800

+ Dimensions: 3484 x 2769

+ Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/8.0

+ Focal Length: 36 mm

+ ISO: 800

+ Flash: Did not fire

+ Camera: Canon EOS 6D

+ Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

+ GPS: 22°16'58" N 114°10'22" E

+ Location: 香港會議展覽中心 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC)

+ Workflow: Lightroom 4

+ Serial: SML.20130523.6D.13872

+ Series: 新聞攝影 Photojournalism, SML Fine Art, Art Basel Hong Kong 2013

 

# Media Licensing

Creative Commons (CCBY) See-ming Lee 李思明 / SML Photography / SML Universe Limited

 

“Painting by Hans Hofmann (1880-1966): Shifting Planes, 1947 (Oil on wooden panel)” / Galerie Hans Mayer / Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 / SML.20130523.6D.13872

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