2024 - 2024 ART021 HONG KONG

Lin & Lin Gallery is pleased to participate in the first ART021 HONG KONG in 2024, presenting the modern artworks by atrtists Wu Da-Yu and Chen Tao-Ming, as well as the latest artworks by artists Zhao Zhao and Shen Liang. The artists are from the perspective of continuing the spirit of oriental art and aesthetics, dialogue with the history from different points of view in a contemporary context, showing the care for the traditional culture.

Wu Da-Yu (1903-1988) was born in Jiangsu Yixing in 1903, Wu was the first generation of Chinese abstract painting representative. He went to France in 1922 to study art at Paris High Art Institution and Bourdelle’s studio. Then Wu founded Hangzhou's National Academy of Art along with Lin Fengmian, inspired an entire generation of Chinese artists. His students include Wu Guanzhong, Zao Wou-Ki, Chu Teh-Chun and others.

Chen Tao-Ming (1931-2017) was born in Shangdong. He co-founded Ton Fon Art Group and was dubbed "The Eight Highwaymen of the East." Chen 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.

Zhao Zhao (1982- ) was born in Xinjiang, China and currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. Zhoa’s paintings, which combine traditional and contemporary elements, explore his philosophical thinking between East and West, and reveal his connection to his own culture. His new series “Seeds” goes beyond the traditional depiction of floral scenes. Colorful flowers with dots explore the continuity and cycle of life. And the title “Seeds” refers to the Zen thoughts of the life circle.

Shen Liang (1976- ) was born in Liaoning, China and currently lives and works in Beijing. The artist has been thinking about the issues of tradition and daily life and giving diversified contemporary perspective to traditional Eastern literati painting. He creates from his personal observation of daily life, combining the spirit of Chinese ink with the medium and technology of Western art. By layering objects, his work reconstructs a world of imagination through Eastern defacement and constitutes a certain kind of reality beyond the objects and constant practices to realize the aesthetic tradition that runs in his veins.