Since its opening in 2011, 3812 Gallery sees itself as a catalyst for the contemporary expression of the uniqueness of Eastern culture. In the last nine years, the gallery has evolved into an art enterprise owing to its diverse approach to the promotion of Chinese contemporary art, its close relationship with artists, scholars and collectors, and most importantly, the understanding that art development and heritage preservation take more than a few white walls in the age of globalisation.
3812 Gallery has published three issues of Collect since 2017, an art journal aiming to provide a captivating and informative channel to art appreciation, a continuation of profound discussions that often take place within gallery walls and less often outside of them.
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Here you can read articles selected from Collect, from art history and artwork analysis to exhibition reviews and insights into the art market, to continually inspire you along your journey of art collection.
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Chloe Ho painting in Wei Ligang's studioWe are delighted to present the renowned contemporary Chinese ink painter Wei Ligang's musings on Chloe Ho's contemporary ink works. Extracted from two essays, the first written in 2014 following Chloe's apprenticeship at Wei's studio in Beijing during the winter of 2013, and the second published in the 2017 exhibition catalogue Ascendence, Wei Ligang reflects on particular paintings by Chloe as well as on her painting style and presence.
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Yu Yang, Ink Object - Rhythm of china No.1, 2015 Ink and colour on paper, 94 x 88 cmIn 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.
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Hsiao Chin, The Cycles (Il Cicli), 1963, Acrylic on canvas, 120 x 76 cmARTpiece #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.
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Hsiao Chin, Power of the Light, 1965, Acrylic on canvas, 160 x 130 cmARTpiece #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.
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Raymond Fung, Breathing (1), 2020, Ink on paper, 90 x 360 cmThis week, we have chosen Raymond Fung's beautiful painting series Breathing, with which the artist hopes to inspire reflection and action on the climate emergency.
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Zheng Lu, Water in Dripping - Silent Narratives, 2019 Stainless Steel, Site-installation, Variable size Exhibited in Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, Ningxia, ChinaIn 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.
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Liu Zhuoquan, Story of Insects, 2011, Glass Bottle, Mineral Colour, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Wooden Frame, 122 x 64 x 8 cm x 8In 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.
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Chloe Ho, Ink Eruption, 2017 Chinese ink, coffee and acrylic on rice paper, 159 x 131 cmIn 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.
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Liu Dan, Airy Mountains, Rushy Glens after Li Tang, 2004, Ink on paper (Courtesy of Sotheby's)For all contemporary art, there are many aspects that attract collectors, such as history, rarity, provenance, size, subject matter, quality, or even fashion.
