De Sarthe Presents Western and Asian Artists at Art Basel Hong Kong

Guests interacting with Wang Xin installation Unknown Artists Promotion Service Walking Promotions by Unknown Artists Agency at de Sarthe booth during Art Basel Hong- Kong. Image: de Sarthe

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De Sarthe offering at the Art Basel Hong Kong includes a selection of works by famous modern masters and contemporary artists.

BY ARTCENTRON

HONG KONG – Since Art Basel Hong Kong opened, collectors, artists, and art lovers have been thronging the venue to see some of the works put on display by galleries and art dealers. One of the galleries getting a lot of attention is the De Sarthe. For this year’s edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, de Sarthe has on display an exciting selection of Western and Asian art including works of Modern Masters Chu Teh-Chun, Auguste Rodin, Bernar Venet, and Zao Wou-Ki, as well as new work by emerging contemporary artists such as Double Fly Art Center, Andrew Luk, Lu Xinjian, Mak Ying Tung, Ma Sibo, Wang Guofeng, Wang Xin, and Xin Yunpeng. Here are some of the artists whose works are on display under the De Sarthe stable Art Basel Hong Kong 2018.

Wang Xin

Image: Unknown Artists Promotion Service - Walking Promotions by Unknown Artists Agency, a 2018 a 2018 LCD TVs, iron, PVC, LED lights, fabric installation by Wang Xin on display at De Sarthe booth at the Art Basel Hong Kong

Wang Xin, Unknown Artists Promotion Service – Walking Promotions by Unknown Artists Agency, 2018. LCD TVs, iron, PVC, LED lights, fabric, 300 x 200 x 200 cm. De Sarthe

Wang Xin is one of the artists from the De Sarthe stable whose works are generating serious conversation at this year’s Art Basel Hong Kong. Her works are interrogative and interactive. Uses language and signs, she challenges the status of the artist and the functioning of the art market today. Her artworks take the form of installations, moving images and new media. Wang Xin, Unknown Artists Promotion Service – Walking Promotions by Unknown Artists Agency, one of the installations by Wang Xin on display at the Art Basel Hong Kong loudly challenges the status-quo of the art world and how artists are promoted, discovered, and appreciated.

Wang Xin was born in Yichang, Hubei, China in 1983. She graduated from China Academy of Art with a B.F.A. in 2007. She also holds an M.F.A from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she graduated in 2011. Some of her solo exhibitions include The Must-See Art Show Where You Can Find 10,000 Artists, de Sarthe, Hong Kong (2017) and Every Artist Should have a Solo Show.

Andrew Luk

Andrew Luk, Infinite Horizon, 2018. Epoxy resin, polystyrene, plastic, paint, canvas on board, LED lights, 200 x 200 cm. Image: De Sarthe

New works by Andrew Luk are some the major presentations by De Sarthe at Art Basel Hong Kong. Luk’s works are unique. He explores epoxy resin, polystyrene, plastic, paint, canvas to raise questions about war. In his Horizon Scan series, he uses torched and charred painted canvas to create a unique art piece. The burned remains are carefully collaged together, submerged in resin and painstakingly polished for several days to produce the nal work in the shape of an unmanned military drone’s crosshairs. The works is lit from within, illuminating an unfamiliar landscape that exists outside of the wall it rests upon.

Born in 1988 in Summit, New Jersey, USA, and raised in Hong Kong, Andrew Luk graduated from the New England School of Art and Design (NESAD) in Boston, Massachusetts with a BFA in 2010. In the same year, he also graduated from Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts with a BA in European History. She is the recipient of the 2016 Project Grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the 2014 Emerging Artist Grant from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. His work has been exhibited internationally including Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2018); The Preservationists, Duddell’s, Hong Kong (2017-18); White Cell, WING Platform, Hong Kong (2017) and The Garden, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong (2017).

Chu Teh-Chun

Chu Teh-Chun, No. 27, 1960. Mixed media on paper, 38 x 57 cm. Image: De Sarthe

Chinese-French artist, Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014) was born in Baitu, China. Chu Teh-Chun graduated from National College of Art (now China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou, China in 1941 under the teachings of Lin Fengmian. In 1955, Chu moved to Paris. The following year marked a change in his artistic trajectory when he visited a Nicolas de Staël exhibition whose freestyle brushstrokes inspired Chu to paint increasingly abstract. He is considered among the elite of China’s most illustrious modern painters He taught drawing at the Central University in Nanjing and the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei.