In June 2016, while Basel hosts Art Basel, the fair that since 1970 has brought together the world's leading galleries, Amalart brings to the city a group exhibition of contemporary Chinese painting. It is not an event of the fair but a parallel exhibition, held in a city gallery that made its spaces available during those days, when Basel fills with collectors, gallerists and art lovers from all over the world.
"Colors of China" brings together five artists of different generations and paths. Ho Kan, born in Nanjing in 1932, and Hsiao Chin, both among the founders in Taipei of the abstract Ton-Fan group, lived and worked for a long time in Milan, where their research met post-war European art. Liu Yiyuan, born in Wuhan in 1942 and a professor at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, works with ink and on the inner landscape. Lu Zhiyi spent fifty years in the Taklamakan Desert, in Xinjiang, and made it the subject of his series of desert poplars. Lee Feng, a Taiwanese painter, combines the mark of the Eastern tradition with the colour and forms of Western art.
The title plays on an idea of traditional Chinese painting, which often gives up colour in order to grasp the essence of things rather than their appearance. In the rooms large colour canvases, black-and-white inks and geometric compositions thus alternated, in a route that showed how broad the language of Chinese painters is today. For Lee Feng, whom Amalart had presented in Milan the year before, it is a new stage of a path that will continue in 2017 with the solo exhibition Art & Poetry.
The year before, in Milan: Lee Feng at the Boscolo Hotel →
In 2017, in Colmar: Liu Yiyuan's solo exhibition →
