tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87522953631208280202024-03-13T08:12:58.732+08:00Pearl Lam GalleriesContrasts Gallery re-named: Pearl Lam Galleries.
Pearl Lam Galleries will now encompass Pearl Lam Fine Art and Pearl Lam Design. The new name reflects the evolution of the gallery’s artistic activities and multidisciplinary expansion. The Gallery will preserve its unique philosophy advocating the revaluation of Chinese aesthetics while working in divergent traditions and across disciplines.Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-30326067437632641142013-08-28T14:07:00.000+08:002013-08-28T14:07:27.826+08:00Jenny Holzer: Light Stream (19 September 2013 - 2 November 2013)<div class="p1">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">American artist <span style="color: #990000;">Jenny Holzer</span> will present <b>Light Stream</b>, a major </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">exhibition of new and vintage work in her first solo exhibition in <span style="color: #990000;">Hong Kong</span>, at <span style="color: #990000;">Pearl </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Lam Galleries</span>, which will open on 18 September, 2013. For this exhibition, <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer</span> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">draws upon her text series </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truisms </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1977–79), </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Living </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1980–82), and </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Survival </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1983–</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">85), presenting </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truisms </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Survival </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the first time in Chinese.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Jenny Holzer</span> is one of the most respected contemporary artists working today, best </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">known for large-scale public projections of text. Influenced by literature, society, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">politics, her work explores notions of transparency, sexuality, morality, and power. Her </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">texts take the form of declarations, quotes, and statements from many points of view, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">often inhabiting complex and controversial subject matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For <b>Light Stream</b>, <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer</span> selected phrases from <span class="s2">Truisms</span>, <span class="s2">Living</span>, and <span class="s2">Survival </span>to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">present on electronic signs and on stone benches. </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truisms </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">comprises over 250 single </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sentence declarations written by <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer</span> at the beginning of her career and crafted to </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">resemble existing aphorisms. Originally printed on posters and anonymously pasted </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on buildings and walls across New York City in the 1970s,</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truisms </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer's</span> first </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">body of text. </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Living </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">references everyday, visceral topics, such as the body and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">personal relationships, to evoke notions of vulnerability within a fast-paced modern </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">environment and the individual grappling with life-altering decisions. </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Survival</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, the first </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">text series written specifically for electronic signs, is a cautionary series where each </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sentence instructs, informs, or questions in a more urgent tone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The centrepiece of the exhibition is <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer’s</span> largest LED gallery work to date, which </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">comprises over 25 LED elements. </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Light Stream</b> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2013), also the title of the exhibition, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was born of <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer’s</span> long-time desire to produce a swarming mass of texts in one </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">work, and is realised for the first time with <span style="color: #990000;">Pearl Lam Galleries</span>. Using selections from </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">all three series, the result is a pulsating, flashing heap of text with statements layered </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and wrapped around one another in frenetic light and colour. Chinese and English texts </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">appear alongside each other, reflecting and encouraging dialogue within the exhibition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Describing the work, <span style="color: #990000;">Jenny Holzer</span> explains, “Though I rely on minimalist </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">configurations, for decades I have wanted to offer a massive, irrational, unpredictable </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">heap of glittering displays. I am happy about the paradox—what appears wild, chaotic, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and spontaneous is a greater technical puzzle and a more difficult challenge to realise. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Pearl Lam Galleries</span> and years of building precisely configured LED signs have made </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this new electronic wilderness possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alongside the LED works, <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer</span> will present a selection of white marble benches, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which are the first works she has produced in Chinese. With their connotations of </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">monuments or Classical sculpture, the solid and memorial form of the marble works </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">offers a dramatic contrast to the LEDs. Short statements such as “MONEY CREATES </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TASTE” and “DON’T PLACE TOO MUCH TRUST IN EXPERTS,” chosen for their </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">particular resonance and impact, are carved in Chinese into the bench seats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more than thirty years, <span style="color: #990000;">Jenny Holzer</span> has presented her astringent ideas, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">arguments, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York and Bilbao, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her medium, whether </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">formulated as a T-shirt, a plaque, or an LED sign, is writing, and the public dimension is </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">integral to the delivery of her work. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">posters, and up to her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, her </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humour, kindness, and moral </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">courage. <span style="color: #990000;">Holzer</span> received the Leone d'Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990 and the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in 1996. She holds honorary degrees </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from Ohio University, Williams College, the Rhode Island School of Design, The New </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School, and Smith College. She received the Barnard Medal of Distinction in 2011. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Holzer</span> lives and works in New York.</span></div>
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Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-87442218491958835572013-08-27T12:36:00.004+08:002013-08-28T12:36:19.414+08:00Golnaz Fathi: The Living Road(15 September 2013 - 10 November 2013)<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span class="s1">SHANGHAI-</span>Pearl Lam Galleries</span> Shanghai will present the first solo exhibition of </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">Golnaz Fathi</span> in China, illustrating the growing interest worldwide in Iranian art, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">initiated by major exhibitions at the Barbican Gallery, UK; The Metropolitan Museum of </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Art, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; and the forthcoming exhibition ‘Iran Modern’ at </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Asia Society in New York. Fathi is an influential member of a thriving new generation of </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">multi-disciplinary artists born in Tehran since the 1970s. Entitled </span>The Living Road<span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">and opening to the public on </span>15 September<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>2013<span style="font-weight: normal;">, the exhibition features 21 new works </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">in a variety of media including <span style="color: #990000;">pen on canvas</span>, <span style="color: #990000;">acrylic on canvas</span> and <span style="color: #990000;">LED light works</span>, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">alongside two historic <span style="color: #990000;">acrylic on canvas</span> works which have been exhibited at Art Forum </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">in Wiesbaden, Germany in 2011 and Tehran’s pavilion at the Shanghai Biennale in 2012 </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">respectively.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #990000;">Golnaz Fathi</span>’s work draws on the discipline of Persian calligraphy reinterpreted </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">through an abstract gestural style. Her work is also inspired by Abstract </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Expressionism and the work of Middle Eastern Modernists from the 50s and 60s who </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">employed the written word as a pictorial element. <span style="color: #990000;">Fathi’s</span> work has been collected </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">extensively by major public and private collections including the British Museum, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">London; the Devi Art Foundation, New </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Delhi, India; The Farjam Collection, Dubai; and </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore.</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Living Road</b> features a series of <span style="color: #990000;">pen on canvas</span> works inspired by the technique of <span style="color: #990000;">Shiah Mashgh</span>, which translates literally as ‘black practice’, the calligrapher’s warm-up exercise whereby letters are repeated over and over again until the paper is entirely covered in black ink. <span style="color: #990000;">Golnaz Fathi</span> sees this process as the most artistic part of traditional calligraphy. She says: “My artistic aim has been to transform calligraphy from words into forms. I treat the letters as a form—I make them float or dance on my canvas. Like a journey of sorts, I take the words up and down, moving to different places that end nowhere. The origin comes from my meditations; perhaps sometimes it ends in stillness, a stillness that talks. They can be read as a visual meditation or a form of prayer. Being restricted by so many rules in traditional calligraphy made me break all the rules and treat the letters just the way I want to. This inspiration comes from my own culture. I am proud of my country’s very rich cultural heritage which in turn has greatly inspired me.” Amongst the other media represented in the exhibition, the light boxes particularly highlight the unique forms in <span style="color: #990000;">Fathi’s</span> work as the glow of the letters and lines emerge from the bold black boxes.</span></div>
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Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-35667015551101808932013-08-23T19:01:00.002+08:002013-08-23T19:03:51.578+08:00Beyond Black and White (21 July 2013 - 10 September 2013)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">SHANGHAI</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">— </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">Pearl Lam Galleries</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is pleased to present "<b>Beyond
Black and White"</b>, an exhibition showcasing 18 works by eight Chinese
contemporary ink artists including Feng </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mengbo, Lan
Zhenghui, Qiu Deshu, Qiu Zhenzhong, Wang Dongling, Wang Tiande, Wei </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ligang and
Zheng Chongbin. These artists are part of a growing circle in China that draws
inspiration from traditional </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese ink painting </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">and its philosophy as well as </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese
calligraphy</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The exhibition opened to the public on 21 July 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The medium
and technique of </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">ink and brush</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> plays a significant role for these artists as they seek to
display the unique heritage of Chinese artistic culture in a new, contemporary
context that reflects today’s </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">globalised world. The philosophy of </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">ink painting </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">also plays a central role among
contemporary ink artists whose energy is laid bare in their artistic creations.
This energy expresses another realm of beauty that goes beyond the visual
quality of the painting. This is known as Qi, or vitality, and is one of the </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Six Principles of Chinese Painting</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">, established
by Xie He in the 5th century. This exhibition aims to address the role of ink
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wide range of sources including </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">Chinese calligraphy</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">landscape painting </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><span style="color: #9f3564; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Geneva;">poetry</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Whether it
manifests itself through the medium, the philosophy or the form, they all draw
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artist’s rapid creative process is filled with uncertainty. The large scale of
the piece emphasizes the relationship between the artist’s bodily movements and
the finished work of art, while driving the viewer’s own immersive experience
of the piece. Wang’s monumental work breaks through the traditional rules of
penmanship, form and composition, revealing the artist’s unique and distinctive
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Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-1404569851201664562013-08-12T12:43:00.001+08:002013-08-12T12:52:15.555+08:00About Pearl Lam Design<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #30add6; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pearl
Lam Design</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> has tirelessly promoted </span><span style="color: #30add6; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">design</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as an art form in China.
Pearl Lam has funded an artist-in-residence programme for </span><span style="color: #30add6; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">artists and designers</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> across the globe. Pearl
Lam Design shows works by established and emerging international designers
including André Dubreuil, Maarten Baas, Mattia Bonetti, and Studio Makkink
& Bey. They are invited to push the boundaries of </span><span style="color: #30add6; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">traditional Chinese art and craft</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">
techniques and create new works that reflect their experiences in China.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #30add6; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: BentonSans-Regular;">Pearl
Lam Design</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> aim to illustrate the absence of segregation
between </span><span style="color: #30add6; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: BentonSans-Regular;">fine art and design</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in traditional Chinese culture, where decorative art assimilates
into fine art, modernity merges with traditions, and traditional values are
still revered. </span><span style="color: #30add6; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: BentonSans-Regular;">The Gallery</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> seeks to cultivate the philosophy and aesthetics of </span><span style="color: #30add6; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: BentonSans-Regular;">Chinese craftsmanship </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">while simultaneously
exploring Western perspectives of these techniques.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #30add6; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: BentonSans-Regular;">Pearl Lam Design</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"> will open a new gallery space in Shanghai in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Featuring works by
herself, French designer </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia-Bold; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">André Dubreuil<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">and
Pearl Lam's own collective </span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia-Bold;">XYZ Design</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">, the exhibition
embraces traditional Chinese arts and craft techniques such as cloisonné,</span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia-Bold;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">woodwork and porcelain.</span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia-Bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The event aims to
redefine the relevance of China’s craft in the context of twenty-first century
as design art, Chinese artist Danful Yang told </span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia-Bold;">ARTINFO</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">.
“China has no design history. We only have craftsmen – the word ‘designer’
didn't emerge until the 1970s, when Western design influenced China,” she
explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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unveils new designs for Yang's Packing Me Softly series, which was first shown
at PAD London earlier in October last year. Painstakingly sewn to imitate
scribbled-on packaging cartons, the fine silk embroidery is so lifelike that
visitors to PAD didn’t recognise them as art, kicking the pieces out of the way
when visiting the booth. One of the pieces in this collection — modelled after
the box Yang used for packing when she moved house — has also been donated to
the </span><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia-Bold;">Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design </span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">for
auction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-20303020873468299612013-08-02T11:00:00.001+08:002013-08-02T12:55:36.499+08:00Pearl Lam Fine Art Galleries Shanghai<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 17.05pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;">Pearl Lam Fine Art</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;"> focuses on nurturing and promoting a
stable of cross-cultural and cross-discipline Chinese artists with a select
handful of international artists. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;">These artists draw inspiration from their traditional values and Western
influences, which in turn allow them to create a new aesthetic or visual
language</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;">. As part of this
mission, </span><span style="color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;">Pearl Lam Fine Art</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.05pt;"> collaborates with renowned curators who
present influential and </span><span style="line-height: 22.71875px;">groundbreaking</span><span style="line-height: 17.05pt;"> shows that question perceptions of </span></span><span style="color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Chinese contemporary art</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;"> and explore the crossing of cultures, East and West.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pearl Lam Galleries </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">is pleased to present <b>Beyond
Black and White</b>, an exhibition showcasing works by eight<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chinese contemporary ink
artists</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">. These artists are part of a growing circle in China that draws
inspiration from </span><span style="color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">traditional<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Chinese
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The artists in <b>Beyond
Black and White</b><span style="font-size: small;"> are all deeply indebted to </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Chinese culture</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"> and art history, using
these traditions to guide their work and embracing a wide range of sources
including </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Chinese
calligraphy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">,
landscape painting and poetry. This illustrates the combination that has
led to the popularity and re-evaluation of contemporary </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #993964; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Chinese ink painting</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17.05pt;">.</span></div>
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Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-45086145684067465682013-07-19T12:54:00.001+08:002013-08-02T12:52:44.362+08:00Development<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9e3564; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pearl Lam </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">started exhibiting and promoting <span style="color: #9e3564;">Chinese contemporary art and design </span>in 1993 in
Hong Kong under the name <span style="color: #9e3564;">Contrasts Gallery</span>.
The name <span style="color: #9e3564;">Contrasts </span>was initially chosen to
be reflective of her taste for exploring and celebrating difference – ‘I enjoy
lots of different things and I’ve always liked contradiction. I do appreciate
things that are quite different’.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2011,
<span style="color: #9e3564;">Contrasts Gallery </span>changed to the name <span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam Galleries </span>to reflect the evolution of
the gallery’s artistic activities and multidisciplinary expansion. The
Galleries now encompasses <span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam Fine Art </span>and
<span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam Design</span> in Shanghai and <span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam Galleries</span> in Hong Kong. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The new name reflects the evolution of the gallery’s artistic
activities and multidisciplinary expansion. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9d3564; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Galleries</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">
will preserve its unique philosophy advocating the revaluation of Chinese
aesthetics while working in divergent traditions and across disciplines.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Exhibitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06720468296915233242noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752295363120828020.post-56442077181518755462013-06-26T15:36:00.003+08:002013-08-02T12:54:44.898+08:00Pearl Lam Galleries Ideology<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam Galleries</span><span lang="EN-US"> is owned and directed by <span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam</span>.
It was initially founded as <span style="color: #9e3564;">Contrasts Galleries</span> in Hong Kong in 1992. There are currently three different galleries spaces: two
spaces in <span style="color: #9e3564;">Shanghai: A Fine Art Galleries </span>and
special projects space; and the recently launched <span style="color: #9e3564;">galleries in Hong Kong</span>. <span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl Lam Galleries </span>will
also open a <span style="color: #9e3564;">new Design galleries </span>in Shanghai
and a major space at <span style="color: #9e3564;">Gillman Barracks </span>in
Singapore in 2013.</span></div>
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Founded by <span style="color: #9e3564;">Pearl
Lam</span>, the Galleries' mission is to stimulate cross-cultural dialogue and
cultural exchange between East and West by establishing distinct and rigorous
programming in each of its galleries spaces in Hong Kong, Shanghai and the
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #9e3564; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Pearl Lam Galleries</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #9e3564; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-weight: normal;">has evolved
from the philosophy of Chinese literati to advocate the revaluation of Chinese
aesthetics while working in divergent traditions and across multiple
disciplines.</span><span lang="EN-US"> It is dedicated to championing Chinese
artists who re-evaluate the philosophy and perception of Chinese contemporary
art, whilst also committed to presenting major exhibitions by international
artists. The galleries have shown Jim Lambie, Zhu Jinshi and Entang Wiharso so far; with Jenny Holzer and Yinka Shonibare soon to be exhibited later in 2013.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9e3564; font-weight: normal;">Pearl Lam Design</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> shows works by established and emerging international designers
including André Dubreuil, Maarten Baas, Mattia Bonetti, and Studio Makkink
& Bey. They are invited to push the boundaries of traditional Chinese art
and craft techniques and create new works that reflect their experiences in
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">cher@pearllamfineart.com /
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