ARTpiece

For this week's ARTpiece, we are delighted to share with you a comparison of TJ Ren's gilded bronze sculpture, East Wind, and a ‘calico’ Lingbi scholar’s rock from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). A fine example of our gallery's specialism, Eastern Origin and Contemporary Expression, TJ Ren draws upon this cornerstone of Chinese culture to create a dialogue between the present and the past.

Contemplate the shared mission of Nanjing-born and Shanghai-based artist Liu Guofu with the American born painter, sculpture and photographer, Cy Twombly. Although born over four decades and more than 7,000 miles apart, the search for the "human longing to communicate" unites these two artists. We have chosen to focus on Liu's The Cold Mountain No.7 and Twombly's 1971 mixed media canvas, Nini's Painting.

ARTpiece #11: This week, we examine the painting Golden Lotus Pond 2 by Beijing-based artist Huang Guanyu, to inspire you to add this beautiful work to your collection. Here we compare Huang's painting with an oil on canvas work entitled Red Dragonfly by one of the great founders of Modern Chinese Painting, Wu Guanzhong.

This week we compare Shanghai-based artist Wang Jieyin's Green Skies painting with the High Tang Dynasty cave painting, Parable of the Illusory City from the Lotus Sutra.

In the biweekly series ARTpiece, we are highlighting one artwork from 3812 Gallery's collection, to inspire you to add it to yours. For this week's ARTpiece we have chosen to highlight the Ink Object series created by Beijing-based artist Yu Yang, the co-founder of the avant-garde Chinese art group “Cold Ink”, to inspire you to add one or more of this extraordinary series to your collection.

For this week's ARTpiece we have chosen to highlight the latest series created by Victor Wong and his artificial intelligence assistant AI Gemini, to inspire you to add one or more of this outstanding six-part painting series to your collection.

We have enjoyed an exciting week for our 85-year-old master artist, Hsiao Chin. Starting with the opening of his major retrospective exhibition In my beginning is my end: the art of Hsiao Chin at the Mark Rothko Art Centre on 31st July, through to a number of exciting articles published this week due to the wonderful global reception of the exhibition.

ARTpiece #6: this week we have chosen to highlight another exemplary artwork from Hsiao Chin's Punto period, The Cycles (1963), to inspire you to add this outstanding painting to your collection.

ARTpiece #5: this week we have chosen to highlight an exemplary artwork from Hsiao Chin's Punto period, Power of the Light, 1965, as we study his premise of adopting abstract painting into Asian philosophy.

In the biweekly series ARTpiece, we are highlighting one artwork from 3812 Gallery's collection, to inspire you to add it to yours. For the third edition, we have chosen Zheng Lu's gravity-defying sculpture series Water in Dripping, inspired by Chinese calligraphy, a beautiful example of Eastern Origin and Contemporary Expression. Huang Du shares with us his study of Zheng's work in his essay On the Form and Formlessness of Water.

In the biweekly series ARTpiece, we are highlighting one artwork from 3812 Gallery's collection, to inspire you to add it to yours. For the second edition, we have selected Liu Zhuoquan's Story of Insects. Liu draws upon the traditional craft of Chinese snuff bottle painting, painting on the inside of glass bottles known as "neihua" or "inner painting", and has transformed it into a contemporary art form. 

In the biweekly series ARTpiece, we are highlighting one artwork from 3812 Gallery's collection, to inspire you to add it to yours. For the first edition, we have selected Chloe Ho's Ink Eruption. Painted in Chloe's beautiful Aberdeen studio in Hong Kong in 2017, this work is an uplifting explosion of colour.