Laurent Martin “Lo”
Wang Keping 王克平
Dinh Q. Lê
Huang Rui 黃銳
Liang Hao 梁浩
Ma Desheng 馬德升
Laurent Martin “Lo”
Wang Keping 王克平
Dinh Q. Lê
Huang Rui 黃銳
Liang Hao 梁浩
Ma Desheng 馬德升
(b. 1955 France, lives in Spain)
Lo’s hanging mobile or standing sculptures made in bamboo are like paintings in the air, like calligraphy in form - they exude power and grace, strength, and tenderness. Through tension and balance his works either float from above or are balanced on a single pin. He explains: "I explore bamboo, Its balance, lightness and flexibility. It's mathematics, poetry, and sensuality. I also create my works by assimilating within them the air and the light.” He searches for the essence and spirit within each bamboo trunk, shaving them into ribbons that he deftly strings together with almost invisible titanium threads and anchors them with the weight of a ceramic ball. For over 20 years Lo has travelled the world in search of different species of bamboo and learning refined techniques from skilled masters.
LaurentMartin"Lo"
Breathing,2022
bamboo,titanbraidthread,leads, ceramicball
Height:300cm diameter:
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LaurentMartin"Lo"
GreatLoop,2021
Taiwansmoked
Rotation
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Height:215cm 120cm
diameter:
fishingnet
HolyCircle07,2023
titanbraidthread,leads,
LaurentMartin"Lo"
Taiwansmokedbamboo, ceramicball
80x81x53cm
(b.1949 China, lives in France since 1984)
Wang Keping is an acclaimed sculptor. Self-taught in China, he was one of the leaders of China’s first non-conformist artist’s group, “The Stars” (Xing Xing星星), formed in 1979. His unique style of sculpting wood transcend trends and he has honed a technique that embraces the characteristics of the wood itself. His work “Couple” in precious mahogany wood, which is a part of a series created for the Musée Guimet in Paris, is a perfect example of how he simplifies his strokes to exude emotion while imparting the depth of the material. Wang states, “wood is like a human body – there are tender parts, hard parts, solid parts and fragile parts, you cannot go against its nature, but must follow it.” Wang Keping is collected by institutions worldwide including Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Carmignac Foundation, Fukuoka Museum, Zadkine, UCCA, among others. In 2015, he was honored with the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His recent, current and upcoming exhibitions include M+ Hong Kong, Musée Rodin,
WangKeping Couple,2020
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(b. 1968 Vietnam)
Vietnamese-American artist Dinh Q. Lê challenges historical presumptions of international issues often driven by political leanings. His newest series of woven photographs entitled Khmer Reamker are powerful and complex tapestries that intertwine ancient and modern imageries of Cambodian histories. Lê combines images of the national epic good vs. evil poem, the Cambodian Reamker with an ominous black and white portrait that was taken at the Tuol Sleng S21 prison by the Khmer Rouge. Lê explains, “I have never been satisfied with the way these S21 portraits have been presented. Part of me hates that they are only being remembered as the victims of the Khmer Rouge, at the last moments before they were all killed, at the worst moment of their lives. I hate that they are only seen as victims. This is going back to my relationship with the way the Vietnamese have also been represented during the war. We have been seen only through the war, as victims of war. By inserting the amazing and beautiful details of the Reamker images, a rich and beautiful part of Cambodian culture, it explores the ideals of justice and fidelity, the importance of morality and virtue in daily life and society. I want us to truly see these people within these portraits as they exist in relation to their Cambodian culture. To me they became important witnesses of their own country’s best and worst.” His works have been exhibited at and/or collected by institutions worldwide including the MoMA, the Tate Modern, The Mori Museum, The Carnegie International, the Venice Biennale, the San Francisco MoMA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, among many others.
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(b. 1988 China)
The contents of Liang’s ethereal paintings present the paradox of a metaphor both concrete and immaterial. The works place the viewer within a space of psychological weightlessness. The bright and even canvas creates a sterile plane while the luminescent objects seem to melt into the frame. A relationship between concrete and abstract emerges. Heavily inspired by baroque philosophy Liang delves into philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s explication of The Fold. Deleuze posits that our current reality is constantly becoming, or coming into being, therefore folds between the different expressions of the present contain unique reflections of reality. Liang believes that painting is a mirror to life, and thus he uses a mirror within his work to create another layer of perception. Originally from Guangdong, Liang Hao now lives and works in Beijing. Liang’s primary material is painting but the breath of his work traverses into mediums such as video art and installation. His recent works focus on the metaphors of human movement, relationships, and an exploration of identity, gender, and beyond. Liang Hao graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2012, with a degree in Fine Arts. He has held various international artist residencies, and notably, Liang Hao was nominated twice for The John Moores Painting prize.
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(b. 1952 China)
Huang Rui is one of China’s most highly regarded artists and one of the pivotal protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups to emerge from China in 1979 - The Stars (Xing Xing 星星) Art Group. Last year, Huang Rui was deeply roused by the war in the Ukraine and has created a new series of works for peace now exhibiting at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. Huang Rui’s paintings, “Here”, “Dream” and “Oneness” expand his experiments of space that have been ongoing for 40 years. In “Oneness” he cuts shapes into a whitewashed painting that can be read as the letters in its title. Huang Rui suggests the ultimate solution to all wars while at the same time linking it to the ancient Chinese diagram “Luo Shu” that describes time, space and cosmologies. Huang Rui has exhibited at the Guggenheim in NY, The M+ in HK, UCCA Beijing, Jupiter Museum Shenzhen and later this year at the Long Museum in Shanghai.
HuangRui
Dream2023 2023
(1983-2015-2023),
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135x100cm
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(b. 1952 China, lives in France since 1986)
Ma Desheng is one of the most captivating artists from China who is currently exhibiting at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He is also one of the leaders of China’s 1979 Star’s Exhibition, (along with Huang Rui and Wang Keping). Ma was self-trained as a wood-block printmaker and ink painter until a car accident left him paralysed. After many years of rehabilitation, he started painting in acrylic, canvases of abstract boulder-like figures. Guimet museum curator, Jean-Paul Desroches has written about his stone paintings, “Since 2002, great stones with polished contours spring up from the rough backgrounds of violent contrasts, structured like the works of Brancusi, volcanic like those of Matisse, but as existential as Morandi’s still life’s. He stacks up the stones to form his figures abolishing the boundaries between sculpture and painting. His stone beings are both fragile and robust, solidly planted, yet their balance is fleeting. Not in the least insensitive, they are able to express the most diverse feelings. The centre of each stone being slumbered a volcano of tar and snow, a magma where uncontrolled energies confront each other.” From this, we can sense the Taoist philosophy on which all the basis of Ma Desheng's thought and inspirational influence is based. He is collected by the M+ Uli Sigg collection, the Centre Pompidou, the Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum. He was honoured with the Chevalier of Arts and Lettres by the French government in October 2022.
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