10 Chancery Lane Gallery is hosting Huang Rui’s “Ink Paintings 1980-2000” at its Hong Kong venue.Huang Rui’s “Ink Paintings 1980-2000” is a solo exhibition showcasing a series of ink paintings that the Chinese artist created during 1980 to 2000. In this series, the artist had used the choice of using ink and paper to the composition and balance of leaving blank space. These ink paintings also act as a three-dimensional giant ink installation to explore and express both physical and sensual “space” together with the audience and all of these works embody Ying and Yang, existence and nonexistence.Huang Rui’s “Ink Paintings 1980-2000” starts off while the artist was still in China during the Stars era and remains an important body of work for over 20 years.“These works, never exhibited since they were shown in China and Japan, are a new discovery in the vast career of one of China’s most engaged artists,” said the galleryPainter, sculptor and a performance artists, as well as the founder of the 798 Art District in Beijing, works by Huang Rui have been shown extensively in China and internationally. In particular, his “Yin and Yang Ink Book” series was recently exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” in New York. The works of the artist have also been collected by Guggenheim Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art,Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and M+ Museum, among many others.Huang Rui is regarded as one of the main protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups in 1979 China. Not only was he the leader of the Stars Group (Xing Xing) art exhibition, he was pivotal in the art movement that initiated some of the first free art expressions in the Post-Mao era bringing together like-minded artists such as Wang Keping and Ma Desheng. “As a seminal figure of the Dashanzi Factory 798 Art District, Huang Rui has sought to express art’s function as a reflection of society and its strength in addressing contemporary concerns,” added the gallery.The exhibition is on view through May 22, 2018, at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, 10 Chancery Ln, Central, Hong Kong.For details, visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/10-chancery-lane-gallery/overview Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the artworks.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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