• 2025 Art Basel Hong Kong
  • 2025｜03.26 - 03.30
  • VIP Preview｜03.26 - 03.27
  • Public Day｜03.28 - 03.30
  • Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC) Booth 3E14
Lin & Lin Gallery will showcase the works by three modern and contemporary spanning more than a century artists, Wu Da-Yu, Chen Tao-Ming, and Hsiao Chin at 2025 Art Basel HK. The exhibition focuses on the development of Chinese abstract painting, which through the aesthetic perspective of Oriental art, explores how the artists use contemporary visual languages to master and expand the spirit of cultural aesthetics behind Chinese calligraphy and painting, revealing the diversity of Chinese abstract art.

Wu Da-Yu has said, “Beautiful dynamism [...] is like a well-wrought sentence whose essence is read instead of its words.” This statement responds to the Chan Buddhist idea of not focusing on being and nothingness, and shows us how Wu’s art is rooted in Chinese aesthetics. Through dynamism, lakshana is born; through light, appearance is formed; and through rhythm, momentum is generated. It is from this aesthetic perspective that Wu Da-Yu creates impressions that resemble something without being literal. His wild brushstrokes and vivid colors form rhythmic spaces while delivering a spirit of natural harmony.

Hsiao Chin's work develops from Taoist and Zen philosophies; his art blends together Eastern and Western cultures and creative modern art experiences, with self-awareness realized through an approach that unveils innate characteristics in a straightforward and frank manner. Be a vanguard of Chinese modern and contemporary art in the mid-1950s, and he also spearheaded Chinese and Western contemporary art exchanges in Europe. Hsiao not only sat into motion the "Modernist Art Movement in Taiwan" and developed new methods of combining traditional Chinese and western thought and materials in the issue of the Modernization Movement of Chinese Fine Arts, he also offered the perspectives and sensibilities of an Asian individual upon the international art stage.

Chen Tao-Ming's work is full of contrasts between Eastern and Western painting strategies and materials. He has been eager to explore the variations of materials, formations, and colors. He made use of the fluidity of water-based paints such as acrylics and watercolors to generate atlas-like tableaus vibrating with musical rhythms. The concrete matters and abstract momentum come to clash on the canvas to allow the mind to freely wander in time, reflecting his inner vibrancy of life and the capture of time.
  • Wu Da-Yu｜Untitled
  • Hsiao Chin｜Chinese opera characters
  • Chen Tao-Ming｜Untitled


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