Linda Gallery Updates [Jan-Apr2012]

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Xue Song I Calligraphy I : 200 x 200cm


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Linda Gallery Updates (Jan 2011 Apr 2012)

1: Zang Kunkun Solo Exhibition, On-goingDuration: 14 28 Feb 2012

2 : Sui Jianguo Solo Exhibition @ MOCA, On-goingDuration: 15 Jan 10 March 2012

3 : Spotted!Zhu wei, Guo Jins works spotted in collectors home featuredby Luxury Magazines / Ye Yongqing interview on Youtube.

4 : Featuring an Exclusive collectionPaintings by Srihadi Soedarsono, Zhu wei, Ye Yong Qing, Zhong Biao

5 : Upcoming Exhibitions : Fang Lijun Solo Exhibition @ MOCA I March 2012Xu Heng Solo Exhibition I 14 Apr - 30 Apr 2012

Deng Xinli Solo Exhibition I Aug 2012

Wu Shaoxiang b. 1957, Money & Beauty 3,

Unique piece, 66 x 21 x 13 cm


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Ongoing Exhibition: Zang Kunkun Solo Exhibition 13 Jan - 28 Jan 2011


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Ongoing Exhibition: Zang Kunkun Solo Exhibition 13 Jan - 28 Feb 2012Linda Gallery is proud to showcase works by talented

emerging Chinese artist, Zang Kunkun. Born in 1986 and

graduated form Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor

of Literature Degree in the Comprehensive PaintingDepartment.

He achieved a notable selection of awards and grants, his

works had been exhibited extensively in China i.e. Today Art

Museum in Beijing.

He had also attracted one of the biggest collectors of ChineseContemporary Art, Mr. Uli Sigg. His collection will be featured

in this exhibition which was acquired from Linda Gallery at Art

Tapei, 2011.

His new works like what you see on

the left is carefully selected, arranged

and organized to create an intriguing

sense of space. Instead of simply

producing artworks solely for its

aesthetic purpose, the artist came up

with these elegant pieces that inspire

the audience to think in participation,

to invoke thoughts as a way of

communicating with what the viewers

perceive.

Please contact 6476 7000 for enquiry for sales of works.


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Ongoing Exhibition: Zang Kunkun Solo Exhibition 13 Jan - 28 Jan 2011

Untitled 2, Mixed Media, 140 x 140 cm ,2011


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Ongoing Exhibition : Sui Jianguo Solo Exhibition MOCA@ 27A Lowen Road


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Ongoing Exhibition : Sui Jianguo Solo Exhibition MOCA@ 27A Lowen RoadLinda Gallery is proud to present an Installation

which will be featured in MOCA, Museum of

Contemporary Art, entitled Restraint Power.

Born in 1956 in Singtao in the province of Shan

Dong, China, Sui Jianguo generally confines his

works to hard, weighty materials such as steel and

rock. His works can be said to reflect his personal

experiences and his internal conflicts and feelings

of imprisonment.

This exhibition is titled Restraint Power consists of

a darkened room with a hulking steel structure, 2.5

m high, 2.5 m wide and 15 m long sealed box. From

within the structure escapes the crashing sound of

steel-on-steel collisions that send reverberations

through the floor.

Looking through one of the two viewing ports in

the structure, the viewer catches fleeting glimpses

of the huge steel ball rolling about within.

However, given the obscured view and erratic

movement of the ball, it is almost impossible to

predict the next collision.


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Also featuring Sui Jianguos works in Linda Gallery


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Newspaper article


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Guo Jin and Zhu Wei works in a collectors home in Singapore Tatler Magazine

Spotted!


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Guo Jins work in a collectors home featured in Domain, The Peak Selections

Spotted!


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Ye Yongqing interview on YouTube.

An interesting

interview on hisexperience when he is

still schooling in

Sichuan Fine Arts

institute. The creative

process a artist wouldwent though in 1980s,

the painting styles

which were influenced

by Soviet Union era.

Interview with Ye Yongqing on Chinese contemporary art

Spotted!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzCFS9Yvjchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzCFS9Yvjc


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Ye-Yongqing I Bird I 150x200cm I Acrylic-on-canvas


14/21Ye Yongqing I Wait I 300 x 200 cm I Acrylic-on-canvas

Ye-Yongqing I Big Bird I 200cm x 150cm I Acrylic on Canvas

Ye Yongqing I Bird I 200x150cm I Acrylic on canvas


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Featuring an Exclusive collection of Srihadi Soedarsono

At the age of 80 years-old, Srihadi is one of the greatest living painters from Southeast Asia, he believes that

the nature of his painting must always express the beauty and the elegance of the human soul.

Borobudur The energy of Love and peace 2011 200 x 350 cm


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Featuring an Exclusive collection of Srihadi Soedarsono

At the age of 80 years-old, Srihadi is one of the greatest living painters from Southeast Asia, he believes that

the nature of his painting must always express the beauty and the elegance of the human soul.

Dignity of Love and Devotion 2011 200 x 350 cm


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Featuring an Exclusive collection of Zhu Weis Sculpture in Linda Gallery

China-China No.2, 120 x 56 x 39.5cm ; 121 x 59 x 45 cm ,2008

Although not formally trained as a sculptor, Zhu

Wei has been inspired by difficulties of expressionin his two-dimensional art to create witty and

stylish three-dimensional paintings. A line

attributed to him is as follows, If China can have

silent poetry, then it should be possible to have

three-dimensional painting.

On the right is the most iconic works is his large

monumental bronze figures leaning forward to thepoint where they are about to trip over. Their bulky

physicality expresses things that could not be easily

conveyed on paper. First created in 1999, coinciding

with time of the fiftieth anniversary of the Peoples

Republic of China, the pair of enormous figures doe

in politically-corrected Mao jackets stands at

attention with shoulders back, arms at their sides,heads raised. The solidity bespeaks unflinching

confidence; the uplifted heads suggest respect for

higher authority, while the absence of eyes suggest

blind, unthinking obedience.


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Featuring an Exclusive collection of Zhong Biaos Painting in Linda Gallery

Zhong Biao I I Still Believe Timeless I 180 x 130 cm I Oil on canvas

Zhong Biao was born in 1968, Chong Qing, China. He is one

of the most famous contemporary artists in China. As a

sensitive artist, Zhong Biaohas captured the pulse of China's

social reforms through the visual symbols Chinese people

are familiar with. He takes the visual experiences of an era

as the image source of his works, including sculpture and

china representing China's past glories, the labor models of

the Cultural Revolution. What attracts artists is the different

meanings of these images, because in the language of

ordinary Chinese people, what used to be synonymous with

corrupt capitalist society or colonization is now the symbol

of modernity. With the development of movies, TV, printing,and digital technology, it seems that the way modern man

receives information has already undergone the transition

from text to images. In these new circumstances, images

from different eras are frequently taken out of their original

context and used repeatedly. And in this process they are

continuously endowed with new cultural

meanings. Zhong Biao's work is similar to the "knowledge

archeology" described by Facult Michael. In "visualarcheology" similar to "knowledge archeology," he cuts a

section from the visual symbols people are familiar with,

then takes out those fragmented symbols from the cultural

deposits of different times, and last arranges and combines

them in a unique way. What he wants is not to show the

meaning of symbols themselves, but to reveal the changing

meanings of the images through setting up peculiar scenes.


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Featuring an Exclusive collection of Zhong Biaos Painting in Linda Gallery

Zhong Biao I Days in the Clouds I 280 x 200cm I Oil on canvas

Zhong Biao's unique work style means that his cultural

attitude is entirely different from that of previous artists.

Be it political pop or gaudy art, what they were eager to

put across was their own attitudes, criticizing eitherideology or commercial culture. Zhong Biao seems to keep

a distance from this sort of criticism. In his works we find

the calmness unique to intellectuals. What he considers is

not how to criticize, but the source of evidence for our

criticism and how it's meaning undergoes changes.

Behind Zhong Biao's approach to China's pop culture and

mass culture, we find a new cultural attitude. He is unlike

other artists who deal with pop culture, who either mixtheir works with real pop culture under the pretext of

concept, or use old handcraft methods to criticize the mass

production of pop culture. It is possible that art based on

handcraft and individual production is not a match for real

mass culture and its media. The relationship between art

that criticizes mass culture in the name of art and mass

culture itself is much like that between a small flyswatter

and an enormous fly. In Zhong Biao's works, we can see

that through the creation of illusions and the

incompleteness of images he gives up not only the

antagonistic relations between art and mass culture but

also the attempt to control mass culture. Through

'visualization' Zhong Biao has staked out his own claim

within the domain of mass culture.


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