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- 2024 Art Basel Hong Kong
- 2024|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 present four modern and contemporary artists, Sanyu, Wu Da-Yu, Chen Tao-Ming, and Chen Chieh-Jen at 2024 Art Basel HK, to explore the core of Chinese artists’ consciousness and their pursuit and response to Oriental aesthetics, which is embedded in the forms of Western modernist art. Chen Chieh-Jen also introduces his latest video work in Kabinett, a curated presentation organized by Art Basel HK.
Sanyu used different materials to illustrate the contours of human body, and assimilated the Chinese water ink techniques for a transformative and an abstract endeavor. He had softened the style of Chinese literary paintings and Western modernism, endowing on the traditional Chinese art, a soul of his own. In the early stage and under the influence of Parisian romanticism, his canvases were mostly constituted by white, pink, yellow and the light ink patches. The canvas was elegant and the form was simple. Inspired by lacquerwares in the later stage, Sanyu was fonder of outlining flowers, leopards, nudes on the pitchy dark base, or dark lines on the dark background, giving the work an oriental ambience.
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.
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.
Chen Chieh-Jen's works are confronted with the rapid technological development and refer to every present situation in which people perceive the world. For Chen, the meaning of art lies in how to experiment with social relationships through the filming process, and how to open up political and perceptual spaces through poetic and dialectical images from ineffable bodily experiences and memories, the human condition under mental fragmentation, and the ambiguous boundaries hidden in societies. This year, Kabinett will present his latest work to invites viewers from different historical, cultural, and social contexts and with different life experiences to deploy their imaginations and further establish a forum for multiple dialogs and multiple dialectics.