Pearl Lam Galleries’ Participation in Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 Coincides with the Galleries’ Opening of March Exhibitions

Pearl Lam Galleries’ Participation in Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 Coincides with the Galleries’ Opening of March Exhibitions: 2018.03.31 12:14 涝仿

<div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Pearl Lam Galleries’ Participation in Art Basel in Hong Kong 2018 Coincides
with the Galleries’ Opening of March Exhibitions and H Queen’s Space
Hong Kong (14 March, 2018)—</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Pearl Lam Galleries will participate in Art Basel in Hong Kong for the
sixth time in 2018, presenting works by leading contemporary artists from across the globe.
Meanwhile, the Galleries will open two exhibitions during the week of ABHK at its Hong Kong locations:
the flagship gallery at the Pedder Building and the new gallery at H Queen’s. In addition, the Galleries
presents In the Mood for Love by Sinta Tantra, a public art project commissioned by Lee Tung Avenue. 
</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>ART BASEL IN HONG KONG
GALLERIES
Stand 1D15, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
29–31 March, 2018 </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Pearl Lam Galleries will o</b><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b>nce again participate in the prestigious Galleries sector of the show, featuring
artworks by important international artists including American artist Robert Motherwell (b. 1915–d.
1991); Australian artist Dale Frank (b. 1959); British artist Antony Micallef (b. 1975); Chinese artists
Huang Yuanqing (b. 1963), Liu Wentao (b. 1973), Su Xiaobai (b. 1949), Zhou Yangming (b. 1971), and
Zhu Jinshi (b. 1954); Italian sculptor Arcangelo Sassolino (b. 1967); and Korean artists Chun Kwang
Young (b. 1944) and Kim Tschang-Yeul (b. 1929).
California, the late ’50s canvas piece by Robert Motherwell that measures 177.2 x 227.3 cm (69 3/4 x
89 1/2 in.), will be presented at the stand. Robert Motherwell was the youngest member of and an
unofficial spokesman and interpreter for the Abstract Expressionist movement. Autobiographical
nuances exist in the work with the artist having spent the important part of his early stages in life in
California. It is a special work in the sense that the artist does not engage solely with the mechanics of
the construction of the form as in many of his other works; it exemplifies the artist’s preoccupations
with the relationship between figuration and abstraction through cartographic representations. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b>A section of the stand will feature installations by Chinese artist Zhu Jinshi, designed to shed light on
“Apartment Art”, a concept termed by art scholar Gao Minglu in reference to the art activities
spontaneously initiated by Chinese artists in private spaces throughout the mid-1990s when public
contemporary art spaces were very limited. Gao believes that in comparison to more popular, largescale
contemporary artworks such as those found in museums, Chinese “Apartment Art” offers a
more thought-provoking simplicity, as the essence of art dwells within an artist’s innermost being.
Other highlights at the stand will include new pieces by Chinese artist Su Xiaobai and British artist
Antony Micallef. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b>The new works on show by Su Xiaobai will be recognizable by his use of traditional
Chinese materials. The artist focuses on essential qualities such as colour, shape, and texture, which in
various combinations produce distinctive surfaces, ranging from smooth and jewel-like to carved and
abraded, with their own history and character. Known for his visually charged figure paintings, Micallef
has enjoyed international success since he placed second in the BP Portrait Award 2000, hosted at
the National Portrait Gallery in London. The new piece created in 2018 Self-Portrait in Red No. 1,
measuring 80 x 100 cm (31 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.), will be highlighted in the stand.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b>AT THE GALLERIES
“HUANG YUANQING:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b> Motives of Lines”
Pearl Lam Galleries, Pedder Building
27 March–11 May, 2018
Motives of Lines, a solo exhibition by Chinese artist Huang Yuanqing (b. 1963), will feature a selection
of paintings on canvas created by the artist in recent years. Huang’s paintings explore the
expressiveness of his calligraphic lines in which each stroke is considered both its own entity and a key
component to composing the rhythm of the plane. Huang “writes” rather than “paints” his paintings,
and through a continuous process of writing, covering, and rewriting, he refines the paradoxical
balances between calligraphy and painting, rice paper and canvas, confrontation and intimateness,
spontaneity and constraint, traces and signs. To Huang, the ideal state of creation is to withdraw the
artist himself from this freely flourishing forest of lines.
“ARCANGELO SASSOLINO: Warped Matter, Curved Time”
Pearl Lam Galleries, HK H Queen’s
27 March–8 May, 2018
Pearl Lam Galleries is delighted to announce the opening of its new gallery at H Queen's, Hong Kong’s
latest art hub. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b>Warped Matter, Curved Time is the first solo exhibition in Asia by Italian artist Arcangelo
Sassolino. For over two decades, Sassolino has developed a visual language where the properties of
physics—speed, gravity, pressure, and vibration—are marshalled to examine the friction between  industrial progress and humanist concerns. His sculpture is both ethological and mechanized, poetic
and menacing, pushing materials past their physical limitations and illustrating Modernism’s process
of becoming and unbecoming.
PROJECTS
“IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE”
SINTA TANTRA
Lee Tung Avenue, Wanchai, Hong Kong
1–31 March, 2018
Created by London-based Indonesian artist Sinta Tantra, </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b>In the Mood for Love is a public art project
commissioned by Lee Tung Avenue. This visual spectacle comprises brightly coloured graphics that
wrap across three levels of the footbridge, as well as large-scale floor paintings at both entrances of
Queen’s Road East and Johnston Road. Inspired by the romance of Lee Tung Avenue’s tree-lined
street, the work celebrates the idea of falling in love while referencing traditional Chinese colours,
symbols, and decorative motifs.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 蹈框, " segoe="" ui",="" sans-serif;"=""><b><br></b></span></div>