Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/05/2018 - 26/05/2018
All Day

Location
Pékin Fine Arts (Hong Kong)

Categories

• Art & Design
• Cultural

Pékin Fine Arts is pleased to present Face, a group exhibition of portraits and figures reexamined in painting and photography by four gallery artists: Kenneth Blom, Liu Di, Lu Ming, and Robin Moyer.

Traditionally, figure-as-subject served the powerful, presupposing an idealized man or woman. Painterly postures were imbued with apparent moral authority and a false sense of authenticity. Gradually, more individualistic pursuits evolved. Today, what we call “realism” takes myriad forms; more likely a stepping off point to a deeper understanding of historic images, and a reflection of the artist’s point of view.

The ruling tendency in contemporary art is no longer figurative. The pendulum has swung to abstraction, multi-media, and other postmodern pursuits. Despite such trends, figurative art stubbornly remains, resisting obsolescence. For some, figurative art is more complex, can go deeper, and achieve more. Perhaps within these trend-defying spaces, individual pursuits will drive portraits and figures into realms, heretofore unexplored.

– Hong Kong, 2018

Artist: Lu Ming 卢明 (b.1983，Hebei province, China)
Title: Beckett
Medium: Mixed Media on Wooden Board
Dimension: 100 x 100 cm
Date: 2016

Artist: Lu Ming 卢明 (b.1983，Hebei province, China)
Title: Face – 2
Medium: Mixed Media on Wooden Board
Dimension: 100 x 80 cm
Date: 2016

Artist: Lu Ming 卢明 (b.1983，Hebei province, China)
Title: Face
Medium: Mixed Media on Wooden Board
Dimension: 100 x 80 cm
Date: 2016

Artist: Lu Ming 卢明 (b.1983，Hebei province, China)
Title: Foreign Poet
Medium: Mixed Media on Wooden Board
Dimension: 100 x 80 cm
Date: 2016

Artist: Robin Moyer (b. USA, Lives and Works in Hong Kong)
Title: Nanjing Road in Shanghai
Date: 1988
Format 1:
Medium: Platinum / Palladium Print
Printed 2017 on Hahnemülhe Platinum Rag
Edition: 5 + 2 A/P / 5 + 2 A/P
Dimension: 22 x 33 cm
Format 2:
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Printed 2017 on Hahnemülhe Fine Art Baryta
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P
Dimension: 80 x 120 cm
Format 3:
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Printed 2017 on Hahnemülhe Fine Art Baryta
Edition: 20 + 2 A/P
Dimension: 40 x 60 cm

Artist: Robin Moyer (b. USA, Lives and Works in Hong Kong)
Title: Bicycles and Poster Extoling the Virtues of the One Child Policy
in Suzhou, Jiangsu
Date: 1988
Format 1:
Medium: Platinum/Palladium Print
Printed 2017 on Hahnemülhe Platinum Rag
Edition: 5 + 2 A/P / 5 + 2 A/P
Dimension: 22 x 33 cm
Format 2:
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Printed 2017 on Hahnemülhe Fine Art Baryta
Edition: 10 + 2 A/P
Dimension: 80 x 120 cm
Format 3:
Medium: Archival Pigment Print
Printed 2017 on Hahnemülhe Fine Art Baryta
Edition: 20 + 2 A/P
Dimension: 40 x 60 cm

Artist: Kenneth Blom (b. 1967 Denmark. Lives and Works in Norway)
Title: Reflection
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 80 x 100 cm
Date: 2015

Artist: Kenneth Blom (b. 1967 Denmark. Lives and Works in Norway)
Title: Nora
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimension: 140 x 160 cm
Date: 2015

Artist: Liu Di 柳迪 (b. 1985 Shanxi Province, China)
Title: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion No. 2
Medium: C – print
Date: 2017
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Dimension／Price: 40 x 90 cm (ed. 3 + 1 AP)
88 x 200 cm (ed. 3 + 1 AP)
180 x 400 cm (ed. 3 + 1 AP)

Artist: Liu Di 柳迪 (b.1985 Shanxi Province, China)
Title: Animal Regulation II No. 9
Medium: C – Print
Date: 2016
Edition: 9 + 1 A/P
Dimension／Price: 60 x 92 cm (ed. 9 + 1 AP)
97 x 150 cm (ed. 9 + 1 AP)
140 x 210 cm (ed. 9 + 1 AP)

Artist: Liu Di 柳迪 ( b.1985 Shanxi Province, China)
Title: Animal Regulation II No. 10
Medium: C – Print
Date: 2016
Edition: 9 + 1 A/P
Dimension／Price: 80 x 76 cm (ed. 9 + 1 AP)
126 x 120 cm (ed. 9 + 1 AP)
180 x 170 cm (ed. 9 + 1 AP)