We are trilled to share that 3812 Gallery has been featured on China Daily on 9 August 2024: "Eastern, Western art in symphony".
"...3812 Gallery — the would-be new kid in London’s well-heeled The Whiteley landmark — told its Chinese art narrative with Western spins, a miniature of the East-West art dialogue unfolding on a global scale." Writes reporter Wang Yuke after visiting the gallery's booth at The Treasure House Artfair in June and digging out 3812's vision with co-founder Calvin Hui.
"The refrain sung by the gallery, representing artists from both Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland, is 'Eastern Origin & Contemporary Expression' — an overarching conceit conjured by the gallery’s co-founder, Calvin Hui."
"It evoked the dire need for artists to revisit and carry on with Chinese and Eastern art traditions and essence, to infuse the zeitgeisty rhythm of life into art to let its modernity sing, resulting in a unique and updated tenor in Chinese art expression and language distinguishable from the Western abstract painting, but still highly resonant with Western and Eastern audiences."
"Such a concept has become a common thread infiltrating the curations and campaigns initiated by Hui, placing a high premium on maintaining the “distinctive language and spirit of Eastern art, or Chinese art, in particular”, regardless of the sprawl of globalization, through which the artistic and cultural boundaries have been reduced to a blur."
