RECONNECT

7 July - 6 August 2020

  • Now that the time to RECONNECT has arrived, 3812 Gallery invites you to rediscover your connection with art as we reflect on our shared values and support of one another, and as we take time to value compassion, love and laughter. Through RECONNECT, we also want to use this pause from busy city life to reconnect with our planet, and to appreciate the beauty of nature.

     

    Embrace with us the equilibrium, harmony and tranquility of Shan Shui (山水) through this bespoke summer collection, curated by Calvin Hu - our gallery co-founder and curator of the internationally renowned MGM Cotai Chairman’s Collection. RECONNECT mirrors the harmony of our artists as they guide us through their worlds.

     

     

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  • ZAO WOU-KI

     

    3812 GALLERY PRESENTS THE CHINESE MODERN MASTER ZAO WOU-KI ALONGSIDE DIFFERENT GENERATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTISTS, RECONNECTING THE HISTORICAL THREADS WOVEN THROUGH CHINESE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART HISTORY.

     

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    Zao Wou Ki 趙無極, Untitled 無題, 1964

    Price upon request 價格待詢

  • ZAO WOU-KI WAS RENOWNED FOR HIS USE OF BOTH EASTERN AND WESTERN ARTISTIC TRADITIONS AND EMPLOYED BOTH SIMULATANEOUSLY TO CREATE ABSTRACT PAINTINGS IN A GESTURAL STYLE, THAT HAVE ACHEIVED INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM AND COLLECTABILITY. 

     

    'His abstract oil paintings combine calligraphic liveliness with an atmospheric depth that... is the expression of his instinctive Chinese feeling for three-dimensional space. The Chinese artist is never concerned with the surface of things. He is always aware of what lies behind it, and the misty distances that fill so many traditional paintings hint at a reality that exists beyond what the eye can see.'

     

    Extract from The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art written by Michael Sullivan, Art Historian

  • LIU GUOFU

  • 'Now the surface has depths. Neither the illusion of depth that would have been created by the colouring effect, nor the recourse to artificial flatness as an apparent opposite. Depth emerges as an effect of colour’s insistence. In other words, it emerges as part of the work of the surface. Liu Guofu’s works colour surfaces. There is surfacing colour'.

     

    Extract from Surfacing Colour: On Liu Guofu by Dr. Andrew Benjamin

     

      

    'Now the surface has depths. Neither the illusion of depth that would have been created by the colouring effect, nor...
    Liu Guofu 劉國夫, Pervasion No.5 彌漫 - 5, 2014
    $84,000 USD

  • WANG JIEYIN

     
  • 'On one hand, Mr. Wang stresses the importance of tradition, the responding connection between tradition and the full picture. On...
    Wang Jieyin 王劼音, Time on the Green Island 綠島時光, 2017
    $31,000 USD

    'On one hand, Mr. Wang stresses the importance of tradition, the responding connection between tradition and the full picture. On the other hand, his works shows that tradition cannot continue itself and stress the idea of "rupture."'

     

    Beate Reifenscheid

    Director, Museum Ludwig

     

     

     

  • VICTOR WONG

     

    'Dreams usually occur involuntarily in our mind through a succession or fragmentation of images, sounds, colours, ideas, emotions, and sensations. What if A.I. Gemini dreams?'

     

  • Victor created a "fragmentation algorithm" to distort the lights and re-assemble A.I Gemini's "mindscape". When the white light is distorted, red, blue and green appear on the rice paper, showing bold and strong colours in a Fauvism style.

  • Victor Wong 黃宏達, The Fauvist Dreams of Gemini 05 Gemini的野獸派之夢 05, 2020

    $12,000 USD

  • WANG HUANGSHENG

    'AND WHEN THE SHADOW FADES AND IS NO MORE,THE LIGHT THAT LINGERS BECOMES A SHADOW TO ANOTHER LIGHT.

    AND THUS YOUR FREEDOM, WHEN IT LOSES ITS FETTERS, BECOMES THE FETTER OF A GREATER FREEDOM'...

     

    KAHLIL GIBRAN, THE PROPHET (1923)

     
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    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Spring Language in Breeze 春風春語, 2008
    $180,000 USD

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    Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, Silver Dew in Autumn Wind 金風銀露, 2017
    $ 37,000 USD

  • XUE SONG

    'The fire burned my joy and pain, as well as my depression and dreams. All of these, accompanied by the memories of my yesterday, were gone with the wind. What remained were the burnt traces and the burnt smell. I discovered some kind of ‘mark’ from this fire, I found a language form that enabled me to speak'…

     
  • Xue Song 薜松, The Blue-green Landscape 青綠山水, 2018
    $ 29,500 USD
     

  • CHLOE HO

     

    'How do we perceive our order? It starts with nature. And then it evolves into man and then beyond that, where human beings can really start to think beyond their immediate selves, and go into a cosmic,or spiritual or abstract sense of existence'...

     

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    Chloe Ho 何鳳蓮, Feline Fortune 占星貓, 2014
    $ 48,000 USD

     

     

  • HUANG GUANYU

    'Facing the end of life, the lotus nevertheless bears a sense of endurance and hope, this anticipation for new life is the beauty of life. From another perspective, these are abstract imageries composed of dots, lines and planes, in which the artist expresses his passion towards life and his admiration of nature. Resonating with the form of the lotus, Huang reflects his feeling of tranquility subconsciously in his abstract expression, which is distinctive of the traditional Chinese concept of poeticism.'

     

    CALVIN HUI
  • Huang Guanyu 黃冠余, Silhouette 對影, 2007
    $ 369,000 USD

  • LI LEI

    'When the inner part of our spirit is juxtaposed with the outside world, in fact, we could see that their nature is the same. However, the appearances they reveal would be divided into the inner world and the outer world. Consequently, this presents the essence, the richness and the internal order of the universe.'

     

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    Li Lei 李磊, Calm Contemplation 17 - Mysterious Light 8 止觀17一玄光8, 2015
    $ 32,000 USD