NATURESCAPES – A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
12 DECEMBER 2014 – 24 JANUARY 2015 PRIVATE VIEW: 11 DECEMBER (BY INVITATION ONLY)
Marc Quinn (UK) Paul Jenkins (USA)
Kim Tschang Yeul 金昌烈 (KOR) Chun Kwang Young 全光榮 (KOR)
Lee Seung Koo 李 承 九 (KOR) Annalu’ (IT)
Koon Wai Bong 管偉邦 William Tong 唐偉霖
Fan Xiaoyan 范 曉 姸 Fu Tso Hsin 傅 作 新
Ma Mingze 馬銘澤 Wu Mingzhong 武 明 中
Mao Lizi 毛栗子 Ma Desheng馬德升
Xia Hang夏 航 You Jin 由金
Yu Yang 于 洋 Zheng Lu 鄭路
Parkview Art Hong Kong presents “Naturescapes – a global perspective”, a bold confrontation between artists’ personal interpretations of nature. Drawing from local and international traditions and disparate visual languages the exhibition explores man’s eternal quest to express, dominate, learn from, reduce and extend the natural world and its meanings.
This exhibition brings together an impressive lineup of international artists with brand new work by Marc Quinn, abstracts by pioneering Star Group members Ma Desheng and Mao Lizi, and striking works by Korean post-war trailblazers Kim Tschang Yeul and Chun Kwang Young, Hong Kong re-inventor of the Chinese landscape Koon Wai Bong and other leading artists.
The mission of our gallery – a member of the Parkview Group – is to build on its existing network of relationships with artists, collectors and art lovers in China and abroad to encourage dialogue between artists, art and viewer, East and West.
Mao Lizi, No. 17, 2014, oil on canvas, 97 x 195 cm
About his “Ambiguous Flowers “, Mao Lizi affirms: “Nothing should be overdone, neither should be too concrete. The more uncertainties the interpretation of language includes, the more space can be left to audiences“.
Marc Quinn, Under the Volcano, 2011, oil on canvas, 278,5 x 504,5 cm
“The overwhelming sensuality of the natural world, whose life force is one of pure desire, the orchids meditate on the human obsession of ideal beauty, achieved through the manipulation, modification and control of nature.” (Marc Quinn)
Annalù, All Ombre dei Pensieri, 2014, wood, paper, acrylic resin and acrylic colours, 110x30x8cm
Annalù transforms mythology in living matter; the living matter in images, and the images in visions. Alchemy transposed to the present day and elevated to art.
Parkview Group has supported Chinese art for the past 50 years and Chinese contemporary artists for over 20 years. Its art collection includes a substantial collection of contemporary Chinese art, an invaluable collection of imperial Chinese stone Buddhist carvings, the largest Dali collection outside of Spain and numerous artworks by western modern and contemporary masters. The collection has grown in scale and received critical acclaim thanks to the leadership of Mr. George Wong, Chairman of the Parkview Group, the eldest brother of the family and Honorary Professor of the Nanjing University of the Arts. George Wong is also the driving force behind Parkview Arts Action, a new arts organization dedicated to providing a platform for emerging artists to address pressing environmental issues.
