From April 4 till April 7, 2010 Robinsons Art Gallery will be present on the Art Karlsruhe art fair. The theme for this year is "An El Dorado for art: art KARLSRUHE is perfect". This and nothing less is namely what the bright and airy column-free halls of the Karlsruhe Trade Fair and Exhibition Centre will be transformed into when the seventh art KARLSRUHE opens its doors from 4 to 7 March 2010. In the coming year the proven concept of "southern Germany's largest and most beautiful gallery" will be presenting classic modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, multiples, and photography in perfect harmony. The 2009 event set a new record with 40,200 visitors, not least as a result of the new, clear layout of the halls. The conclusion drawn by the fair's curator Ewald Karl Schrade is unequivocal: "art KARLSRUHE is now perfect". Robinsons Art Gallery will show several works by Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Corneille, Janice Devali, René Magritte, Don Ken, Zao Wou-Ki, Zhu Yan, Huang Yin, Liu Yujun and Fernando Botero.
12/12/2009 to 02/20102nd Edition of Animamix BiennialFour Museums - Four Venues - Four Exhibitions:Today Museum, BeijingMuseum of Contemporary Art, TaipeiMuseum of Contemporary Art, KaohsiungMuseum of Contemporary Art, ShanghaiMore info: www.mocashanghai.org
4 to 8 December 2009 in Flanders Expo Ghent, for the 28th edition Art lovers who visit the 28th edition of Lineart from 4 to 8 December 2009 can enjoy a number of novelties that make this international art fair for ethnographic, modern and contemporary art in the central hall of the Flanders Expo exhibition centre an absolute must.Come and visit us on stand number 365 and 366.We will welcome you with a very excellent exhibition on stand number 617.More info: www.lineart.be
Exhibition from November 20 to December 2009In the eighties, the Danish artist exhibited his paintings worldwide. From Copenhagen to London, from Amsteram to San Francisco. His paintings were sold for exorbitant prices to renowed international art dealers, galleries and auction houses.Late eighties, all became a little quiet for Finn Pederson, due to personal circumstances. But still, the expressive paintings of this fascinating artist are enchanting. First intrigued with his purely poetic color explosions and also with more traditional images of masks, which float like planets through an area of shimmering color and fiery flashes. Gradually Pedersen is back in the picture.Finn Pedersen lives in Scandinavia and works in his studio driven to create colorful paintings. With powerful moves he brings the paint on the canvas. He used the spatula, fingers or let the contents of the tube on the canvas in thick streams flow. Pedersen braid the colors together, let them run around each other. The duplicate the mysterious and unexpected new relationships. It is this artist of the highest importance that every color remains clear and pure. It may not be messy, no mixing of colors. For Pedersen, each color is good enough of themselves. Colors should complement each other. They each have new energy. Like the single notes in a melody in which each note is its own important role.Pedersen's paintings are recognizable and enigmatic. Recognizable, because they do at first sight reminiscent of the boisterous aggressiveness of the Cobra artists' movement during the years 1948-1951. The founders were fond of expressive colorful exaggerations. Puzzling, because the painting plays with the spectator. As in a dream the picture changes continuously in the painting. The most beautiful is malformed. Enthusiasm is united in horror, sure to delight, eternity with transience.Pedersen tries in his paintings to express the images stored in his memory. He paints himself as he says "his experience". He adds:"I get in my daily life impuleses everywhere. It may be something that I see in the street. In a magazine, a newspaper or something on television that I hear. My paintings are a kind of reflection of my experience."He doesn't try to escape from the harsh realities of life to hide in a colorful universe. The frequent use of masks in his paintings is remarkable. For Pederson masks are an important part of human rituals. The express hope, fear, desire and hardness thoughts. With masks, you can create an illusion and something or someone else than in your everyday life. The mask is a dream role or a frightening figure. Teh mask also reminds the artist of the chaos of creation. A giant, icy cold and darkness, which gradually turns into a planet with plants. First sign of life was found in the sea, and one day human being appears. Each painting is a creation in itself. It grows when you look at it.
Pieter Aspe, famous Flemish writer, and his wife Bernadette live in an amazing apartment at the port of Blankenberge.Het Laatste Nieuws could have an exclusive look ...It takes two to tango by Don KenOK OK OK we know by Don KenCyberbaby by Olivier Pauwels
10/10/2009 till 06/11/2009Opening Saturday 10/10/2009 by Jan des BouvrieWith beautiful art works of Huang Yin and Liu Yujun.Jan des Bouvrie (° 03/08/1942), a Dutch interior designer and also known from his TV-show TV Woonmagazine. He founded an interior shop in Naarden and one in Grave (Netherlands) named Het Arsenaal. In the meantime the establishement in Grave has been closed down. Jan des Brouvrie also designs for big companies such as household appliances manufacturer Princess, furniture factory Gelderland, construction store Gamma and meanwhile Jan des Bouvrie expanded that collection with lightening, wallpaper and window decoration. For other companies, he also designed outdoor furniture and sun protection products. He is also active as special professor at various design academies. As social figure Jan des Bouvrie often was the subject in the program Glamourland van Gert-Jan Dröge. September 21th, des Bouvrie received a Glamour Award for his entire career in the design category.More info: www.lionelgallery.com
kunstwerken Don Ken en Janice Devali geveild ten voordele van stichting ParkinsonZowel Jacques Vermeire als Valerie De Booser hebben ervaring met Parkinson. Jacques' vrouw, Martine, en Valeries moeder, Mieke, lijden aan de ziekte. Over Parkinson is nog maar weinig bekend. En dus organiseerden Martine en Mieke op vrijdag 2 oktober 2009 een kunstveiling ten voordele van het wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Art For Parkinson was de titel, en ook Clouseau en Soulsister deden hun duit in het zakje. Een veiling werd gehouden onder supervisie van een professionele geauthoriseerde veilingmeester. Het kunstwerk van Don Ken en schilderij van Janice Devali werden geveild aan een opmerkelijk bedrag ten voordele van de stichting Parkinson. Meer info op www.belgianparkinsonfoundation.Véronique De Kock & Jaques Vermeire graciously hosted the evening. Clouseau and Soulsister performed. Not one after another, something they've done many times but with each other. Koen and Kris Wauters, Jan Leyers and Paul Michiels sang and played their best songs together. An auction was held under the supervision of a professionally authorized auctioneer. A painting of Don Ken and an artwork of Janice Devali were auctioned for a remarkable amount in benefit of the foundation for Parkinson. More info on www.belgianparkinsonfoundation.eu
Tijdens de 29ste editie van De Gordel kon je een schilderij winnen van Don Ken. Don Ken is de enige kunstenaar die de Disney figuren mag gebruiken in zijn werk. De gelukkige winnaar is Yana Sabbe. Yana wint een schilderij van Don Ken met daarop Sneeuwwitje. Op de foto van links naar rechts Carla Galle, administrateur generaal van Bloso, de organisator van De Gordel, een gelukkige Yana Sabbe en Don Ken.
In our gallery on Zeedijk Het Zoute 757 in Knokke-Zoute we are pleased to invite you to a solo exhibition by Huang Yin, a young, emerging Chinese artist. Huang Yin's solo exhibition will run from August 15 to August 23, 2009.
In our gallery on Zeedijk Het Zoute 757 in Knokke-Zoute, Belgium we are pleased to invite you to a brandnew CoBrA exhibition. The exhibition will run from August 7 to August 13, 2009.
In our new gallery on Kustlaan 229 in Knokke-Zoute, Belgium we will have a solo exhibition by Janice Devali starting on August 7.
In our new gallery on Kustlaan 229 in Knokke-Zoute, Belgium we will have a solo exhibition by Janice Devali. The exhibition will starting on Friday August 7 during the Nacht van Het Zoute. The theme of the exhibition is "Madonna". Janice Devali's solo exhibition will run from August 7 to August 16.
In our gallery on Zeedijk Het Zoute 757 in Knokke-Zoute we are pleased to invite you to a brandnew CoBrA exhibition. The exhibition will run from August 7 to August 13, 2009.
In our new gallery on Kustlaan 229 in Knokke-Zoute, Belgium we are pleased to invite you to Igor Tcholaria's one man show. The exhibition will run from July 18 to August 2, 2009.
In our gallery on Zeedijk Het Zoute 757 we will have a one man show by Liu Yujun at the same moment.
In our gallery on Zeedijk Het Zoute 757 in Knokke-Zoute, Belgium we are pleased to invite you to Liu Yujun's one man show. The exhibition will run from July 18 to August 2, 2009.
In our new gallery on Kustlaan 229 in Knokke-Zoute, Belgium we will have a one man show by Igor Tcholaria at the same moment.
Op vrijdag 19 juni opende Robinsons Art Gallery een nieuwe galerij op de Kustlaan 229 te Knokke-Zoute. Naast onze galerij op de Zeedijk Het Zoute 757, kan u ons nu ook terugvinden op de Kustlaan (tegenover Flamant, naast Amica Trend).
HuangYin is taking part in a group exhibition in the HuBei Museum of Art. The exhibition will run from 12 June 2009 to 12 July 2009 in the HuBei Museum of Art.
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Due to the historical chances, Wuhan in Hubei has become one of the original places of Chinese contemporary art and cultural elite movements in 1980s when many artists and fine arts theorists of great importance appear. Imperceptibly influenced by the history, art development of Hubei province is accompanied by glorious history. The glorious history is worth remembering, and the thoughts and creation on history will go on.
In fact, many artists create in the middle years of 1980s through independent thinking and historical image resources before the reform and opening up. The phenomenon lasts till 1990s and a considerable amount of artists are involved. It is worth being approved that many artists, based on independent and serious thinking, re-read and look back at history with plentiful image symbols embodying historical memories, and reach the goal of reflecting the past and influencing the present. This way of narration needs to be seriously faced.
“Historical Image—2009 Chinese Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, held by Shenzhen Art Museum and Hubei Museum of Art, has invited excellent artists nationwide to create works on the topic of historical image, in hope of attracting wide and in-depth attention on this artistic phenomenon from academic circles during the tour exhibition. We have noticed that some of the participant artists are from Hubei, thus we hope the cooperation and exchange with Shenzhen Art Museum will be beneficial to the development of Hubei contemporary art.
Fu Zhongwang
President of Hubei Museum of Art
HuangYin is taking part in a group exhibition in the ShenZhen Art Museum. The exhibition will run from 24 April 2009 to 14 May 2009 in the ShenZhen Art Museum, 32 Donghu St 1, Aiguo Rd, Shenzhen 518021, China.
http://www.szam.org
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a tendency in Chinese contemporary art to borrow the image symbols from Red Classics and make a mixture in the artistic concept of post-modernism. Although artists differ from each other in style and issue, they lay emphasis on the reflection on history and concern for future. Moreover, this kind of works profoundly gives prominence to the position of Chinese standard in terms of both social culture and artistic creation. Obviously, it would be beneficial to the development of Chinese contemporary art. Based on the above, we hold this tour exhibition to show the works in different galleries in hope of attracting the academic circles’ attention on the tendency of creation.
After the “Ideational Image - 2002 Chinese Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Oil Painting”, Shenzhen Art Museum hold another five Chinese Invitational Exhibitions of Contemporary Oil Painting “Graphical Image”, “Playful Image”, “Mirror Image”, etc. in succession. The six exhibitions primarily put images in order in academic context, highlight the cultural token, namely reveal the changes of idea and technique of creation in era of image, and also show people’s living circumstance and actual concern. This is the logical train of thought of this exhibition.
To continue this topic, “Historical Image 2009 Chinese Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art” invites excellent artists nationwide to create works on the topic of historical image. In spite of the limitation of the topic, the polysemia of image expression, reflection and connotation behind the image, and different forms of artistic expression will bring us special artistic experiences and spiritual exchanges.
Song Mingyu
President of Shenzhen Art Museum
Opvallende verschijning op de Art & Antique Fair in Den Bosch: werk van de Colombiaanse kunstenaar Fernando Botero, dat normaal gesproken met name in musea te zien is. Galerie Utrecht heeft de hand weten te leggen op een aantal werken. De werken worden getoond op de Art & Antique Fair in Den Bosch die nog tot en met 26 april duurt. Fernando Botero kwam na omzwervingen door onder meer Frankrijk, Italië en de VS terug in Zuid-Amerika in aanraking met het muralisme. Centraal in deze in Mexico ontstane stroming staat socialistisch beeldmateriaal. Fernando Botero werd erdoor gegrepen en gaf er zijn eigen draai aan. Met name hiermee werd hij vanaf de jaren zestig wereldberoemd.
Welvaart en de hedendaagse consumptiemaatschappij zijn belangrijke thema’s in het werk van Zhang Jianjun (1979). Met deze begrippen in het achterhoofd maakte hij dan ook zijn serie fatties. Deze geslachtloze goedgevulde figuren in reuze formaat vertegenwoordigen het Chinese materialisme ten voeten uit. Volgegeten en voldaan nemen ze grijnzend poses aan, soms in een groep, soms alleen. Jianjun beschrijft ze als mensen die al hun waardigheid verloren zijn en zich te buiten gaan aan al het oppervlakkige dat de wereld te bieden heeft. Het werk kan een aanklacht genoemd worden tegen de stijgende welvaart in China en de hebzucht die daarmee gepaard gaat. Vulgair noemt hij ze: ‘The fatties are busy with pleasing the vulgarity’. Deze cynische ondertoon in het werk valt echter in eerste instantie helemaal niet zo op. De ronde vormen, de roze tinten en de glimlachende gezichten roepen eerst vooral positieve associaties op. Na een grondiger inspectie blijkt echter dat de lijven behalve dik ook enigszins misvormd zijn. Vreemd omgebogen handjes en uit verhouding getrokken ledematen springen ineens in het oog. De glimlach begint steeds meer op een verwrongen grijns te lijken. Het is pas na deze tweede blik dat de kijker aanvoelt en zich realiseert dat deze fatties het misschien helemaal niet zo goed bedoelen. Heel veel humor bevat het werk gelukkig wel. Want ondanks de duidelijk aanwezige kritische ondertoon en het sarcasme wordt het nooit onprettig om naar te kijken. De fatties mogen dan niet de meest inhoudelijke personen op deze aarde zijn, het werk is dat gelukkig wel. Don Ken (1957) is de enige beeldend kunstenaar ter wereld die officieel toestemming heeft gekregen van de Walt Disney studio’s hun bekende tekenfilm- en stripfiguren in zijn werk te gebruiken. Zijn Donald Ducks en Mickey’s zijn dan ook geen slappe aftreksels maar ‘the real deal’, wat een kenner direct ziet. Naast deze geschilderde figuren zijn op de doeken vaak korte teksten als ‘Basically I’m OK’ of ‘How can you not love me’ te lezen. Door en over het beeld heen zijn krassen of druppels verf geplaatst, gekraste woordjes en boter-kaas-eieren rasters lijken willekeurig her en der te zijn aangebracht. Het is net of er zonder enige bedoeling op los geschilderd is, echter, niets is minder waar. Het werk van Ken kan goed omschreven worden als een afspiegeling van de hedendaagse Westerse maatschappij. Binnen deze verwijzing brengt de kunstenaar zijn eigen visie aan, in essentie kritisch maar wel in bedekte termen. Ken laat zijn boodschap onder andere naar voren komen in de teksten die hij gebruikt. Deze zijn op z’n minst dubbelzinnig; ze staan of vallen bij de interpretatie van de toeschouwer en de context waarin ze te zien zijn. De kijker zal de uitspraak snel in verband brengen met de afgebeelde figuur of de locatie of eigenaar van het werk, wat ironische situaties en foutieve conclusies tot gevolg kan hebben. Zo is het werk universeel te noemen maar is tegelijkertijd de eigenheid ervan onmiskenbaar. Ken woonde een aantal jaren in Amerika. Hier heeft hij een aanzienlijke bekendheid opgebouwd en kan hij onder andere grote namen uit de film- en muziekwereld tot zijn klantenkring rekenen. Wij zijn dan ook vereerd zijn werk te kunnen tonen. http://www.galerieutrecht.nl 22 maart – 26 april 2009
From March 19th ARTPARIS will be kicking off its eleventh edition, inviting international collectors, professionals and lovers of art from the world of art to visit the more than one hundred galleries which will be brought together under the majestic dome of the Grand Palais through March 23rd, 2009.
115 of the most dynamic galleries of modern and contemporary art currently active on the international art market they will offer a vast panorama of the art of the 20th and 21st centuries as represented through a range of media from painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, installation and performance.
Robinsons Art Gallery will be present showing works by Bernard Buffet, César, Fernando Botero, Hans Hartung, Huang Yin, Janice Devali, Karel Appel, Liu Yujun, Pierre Aléchinsky, René Magritte, Wilfredo Lam, Willem de Kooning, Zao Wou-Ki and Zhu Yan.
It is remarkable that each of the paintings in this series by Liu Yujun contains images of a blue liquid in a variety of forms. This images seem to be abrupt as there is no logical or semantic connection with the other images in the paintings whatsoever. We furthermore find that Liu Yujun has changed the blue liquid into an ‘unidentified liquid’ to name these paintings, which mainly deal with Chinese women, and thus avoids the important to a certain extent and dwells on the trivial. Perhaps this is exactly where the problem lies. By calling the blue liquid ‘unidentified liquid’ and by using this name as the theme of this series of paintings even though this liquid does not dominate the works, Liu Yujun went beyond merely painting ‘beautiful women’.
Liu Yujun illustrated this point in A Painter’s Oral Account: ‘here, the blue liquid symbolises a sense of insecurity’. If we look at the semantic and aesthetic relationship between different images in this series of paintings in a comprehensive manner, we find that this liquid, regarded as the central theme by Liu Yujun, indeed plays an important role in determining the aesthetic importance and meaning of the paintings. This is because from an aesthetic point of view the blue liquid, suddenly appearing out of nowhere, gives the static representation vitality and vigour. The meaning of the enigmatic blue liquid seems to be mysterious and ambiguous, all the more because this liquid has no connection with the images of beautiful women whatsoever. Perhaps it is exactly this indescribable meaning that makes Liu Yujun see the blue liquid as a symbol of insecurity.
In my view, however, the blue liquid appearing in the paintings or on the faces and bodies of the beautiful women is essentially negative in meaning. The argument of Liu Yujun is only one viewpoint out of many negative meanings. This is because if we have a look at these numerous negative meanings we doubtless discover landscapes that are not as beautiful as the ‘beautiful women’ in these works. Perhaps the reality is exactly the opposite. The negative interpretations embodied in the series Unidentified Liquid precisely originate from the negation of beauty and result in different forms of denial of modern society and culture. This is in my view the real meaning of the series Unidentified Liquid and it is also a point of special importance and distinctive value in contemporary art.
Galerie Bertin-Toublanc Miami
Wynwood Art District
2534, North Miami Avenue
F-33127 Miami, Florida
USA
Tel: + 1- 305 573 3554
Fax: + 1- 305 573 0636
Liu Yujun in Miami runs from March 14 up to June 30, 2009.
With some 25,000 visitors LINEART 2008 confirmed its vocation as an international fusion art happening covering all the major artistic disciplines of the last one hundred years. Despite the storm clouds of the economic downturn hanging over us, the 27th edition of LINEART once again proved a bastion of the art world, living up to its name both in terms of visitor numbers and sales generated.
Robinsons Art Gallery's artists featured on Lineart 2008 were Karel Appel, Pierre Alechinsky, Joseph Beuys, Corneille, Keith Haring, René Magritte, Georges Mathieu, Bram van Velde, Andy Warhol, Zao Wou-Ki, Fernando Botero.
Lineart 2008 featured one-man shows by Janice Devali, Don Ken, Zhu Yan, Huang Yin, and Liu Yujun. All of the above are exclusively represented by Robinsons Art Gallery.
