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Gotta Be Free
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Featuring International Leading Artists
And Upcoming Contemporaries
PLUM BLOSSOMS GALLERY
萬玉堂畫廊
G6, 1 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
中環荷李活道一號華懋荷李活中心地下六號
T: 852 2521 2189
F: 852 2868 4398
E: info@plumblossoms.com
W: www.plumblossoms.com
OSANG GWON 權五祥 (B.1974)
Map
3D sculpture made of C-print, mixed media
185 x 78 x 67 cm
2008
*different views
Osang Gwon was born in 1974 in Seoul, South Korea, where he currently lives and works. In 2004,
Gwon graduated with an MFA in Sculpture from Hong-Ik University in Seoul. The sculptor-photographer
has held solo exhibitions in UK, China, the US and South Korea. He has participated in many national and
international group exhibitions, the most recent of which include “ A POSITIVE VIEW”, Somerset House,
London, UK (2010), “Manipulating Reality”, the Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence, Italy
(2009), “Contemporary Korean Art: Wonderland”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (2007) and
“Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art of Korea” (2007).
His work is collected widely and features in several public collections within Korea, including the National
Museum of Contemporary Art; the Busan Museum of Art; the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, and
the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art. Gwon’s most high-profile project to date has been the commission of
artwork for the 2008 release of the British rock band Keane’s album the “Perfect Symmetry”.
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Flowers 72
Screenprint on paper
Signed in ball-point pen and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso.
From folio of 10, edition of 250 with 26 artist proofs lettered A-Z.
91.5 x 91.5 cm
1970
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products Inc. New York.
Published by Factory Additions
Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh and died in 1987 in New York City, USA. Warhol
graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, with a degree in pictorial design
in 1949. After graduating, Warhol moved to New York City, where he worked in advertising
and began exhibiting his work during the 1950s. Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, and
filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His work
is held in numerous prominent collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and abroad in the Tate Modern, London; Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Retrospect
Serigraph on paper
Signed “K.Haring”, dated “89” and editioned “73/75” by the artist
Edition of 75 and 7 APs
105 x 190 cm
1989
Published by Martin Lawrence, Greenwhich, Conneticut, with his blind stamp
at the lower left.
Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, USA, and died in New York in 1990. In the late 1970s he
attended the Ivy School of Professional Art, Pittsburgh, and the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Haring has featured in countless solo exhibitions and retrospectives worldwide, including those held
at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(1997). His work is held in numerous prominent collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum; and abroad in the Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; and the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel.
CHINATSU BAN 坂 知夏 (B.1973)
Untitled (Orange with Butterflies)
Fiberglass, steel armature, acrylic paint
Overall size: 73 x 71 x 124 cm
2005
Chinatsu Ban was born in 1973 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. She lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. The
artist graduated with a BFA from Tama Art University, Tokyo, in 1997, and is a member of the Kaikai Kiki
Collective founded by artist Takashi Murakami. She works with a variety of media including painting,
drawing and sculpture. Solo exhibitions have been staged in Japan and the USA.
In 2005 Ban completed a major sculpture in New York’s Central Park for the Public Art Fund’s Doris
C. Freedman Plaza Sculpture Installation. Group exhibitions include “Contemporary Outlook Japan”,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (2007), “Red Hot: Contemporary Asian Art Rising”, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, USA (2007) and “Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture”, Japan Society,
New York and Yokai Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2001).
WANG QINGSONG 王慶松 (B.1966)
Nutrients
C-Print and diasec mounting
Edition 3/8
160 x 300 cm
*detail
Wang Qingsong was born in 1966 in Daqing, China. In 1991 he graduated from the Sichuan Academy
of Fine Arts, and he currently lives and works in Beijing, China. A master photographer, Wang has
held numerous solo exhibitions at venues in Austria, Germany, USA and Brazil including the Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2009). He has been included in many international group exhibitions
including 17th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia (2010), “21: Contemporary
Art”, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (2008), “Thermocline of Art New Asian Waves”, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (2006), “Follow Me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the
Millenium”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2005) and “Special Projects”, PS1 Contemporary Art Center,
New York, USA (2002).
Wang’s work is represented in public collections such as the Brooklyn Museum and the International
Center of Photography, both in New York.
THUKRAL & TAGRA (B.1976 & B.1979)
Somnium Genero – Spiro 2
Acrylic and oil on canvas
183 x 183 cm
2008
Jiten Thukral was born in Jalandhar, India, in 1976, and Sumir Tagra was born in New Delhi, India,
in 1979. Both artists currently live and work in New Delhi. Thukral gained a BFA from Chandigarh
Art College in 1998 and an MFA from the New Delhi College of Art in 2000. Tagra graduated in 2001
with a BFA from the New Delhi College of Art and in 2006 completed his Post-Graduate Studies in
Communication Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad, India.
The duo work collaboratively with a broad range of media including painting, sculpture, video, installation
and graphic design. They presented solo exhibitions in India, Switzerland, UK and the USA, Germany
and Australia, and have participated in numerous international group exhibitions including “Urban
Manners II”, SESC, Sao Paolo, Brazil (2010), “Confines/Frontiers”, Insituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno,
Valencia, Spain (2009), Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2009),
and Animamix Biennial 2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China (2007). Thukral & Tagra
have also completed high-profile commissions for Pepsi, United Colors of Benetton and Nokia.
ZHU WEI 朱偉 (B.1966)
China, China (Painted Pottery Edition)
Cast Aluminium
Edition of 9
Signed Zhu Wei in Chinese on left shoes
124cm (H) x 92 cm (W) x 125cm (L)
2008
China, China (Archaic Bronze Edition)
Cast Aluminium
Edition #2/9
Signed Zhu Wei in Chinese on left shoes
124cm (H) x 92 cm (W) x 125cm (L)
2008
Zhu Wei was born in 1966 in Beijing, China, where he currently lives and works. He graduated from
the Art College of the People’s Liberation Army in 1989 and in 1993 from the Beijing Film Academy. A
sculptor and practitioner of contemporary Chinese ink painting, Zhu has held solo exhibitions in China,
Singapore, the USA, Indonesia, Belgium and Hong Kong. He has been included in group exhibitions
across China and abroad, including “Water and Color: Contemporary Ink Art Show”, Today Art Museum,
Beijing (2009), “Butterfly Dream”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China (2008), “Chinese
Contemporary Art”, National Art Gallery, Athens, Greece (2008) and First Guangzhou Triennial,
Guangdong Museum of Art, China (2002).
Zhu is also represented in many collections within China including the Shanghai Art Museum,
the Guangdong Museum of Art, the Chongqing Art Museum, the Nanjing Art Museum and
the Shenzhen Art Museum.
RICHARD TUTTLE (B.1941)
Masculin
Wood and plastic laminate
Height variable, 81.2 x 81.2 cm
Edition of 10
1999
Richard Tuttle was born in Rahway, New Jersey in 1941, and he lives and works in New Mexico and
New York. He received a BA from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Although most of Tuttle’s prolific
artistic output since he began his career in the 1960s has taken the form of three-dimensional objects,
he commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and
idea-based nature of his practice.
Richard Tuttle received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for
Sculpture. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York; ICA Philadelphia; Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland; Centro Galego de Arte
Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; and the Museu Serralvesin, Porto, Portugal. Richard Tuttle
was also featured in a major retrospective in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005).
QIN FENGLING 秦風玲 (B.1957)
Babies
Acrylic on canvas with toy collage
200 x 200 cm
2007
*detail
Qin Fengling was born in Beijing in 1957. She is a self-taught artist. In 1985, she began working with oil
and acrylic on canvas. Qin Fengling has developed her own unique style of painting and found her own
art language. Ignoring traditionally accepted methods, she creates pieces that can only be described as
“sculpture on canvas”.
Qin Fengling has held solo exhibitions in China and also featured in group exhibitions worldwide
including “UNITED in Art”, De Vos Art Museum, Marquette, USA (2008), “The First Today’s/Energy:
Spirit•Body•Material”, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2007) and “Neo- Painting from China”,
Kamakura Gallery, Japan (2007).
WANG LEI (B.1980)
Silence
Oil on canvas
200 x 200 cm
2010
Wang Lei was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1980, and she currently lives and works in
Chongqing, China. She completed a BFA in oil painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2004
and subsequently received a MFA from the same institution in 2008.
Wang has participated in group exhibitions across China including “80-08 Pioneers”, Shanghai
World Trade Center (2008), “Mixture and Vitality : 2008 Beijing Show”, Beijing Today Art Museum
(2008) and “Reconstruction of the Contemporary”, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Guangzhou Fine
Arts Institute, Chongqing (2008).
KAMROOZ ARAM (B.1978)
Cryptic Summit
Oil on Canvas
132 x 168 cm
2007
Kamrooz Aram was born in 1978 in Shiraz, Iran. He currently lives and works in New York. In 2001
he received his BFA from the Maryland Institute, and in 2003 graduated with an MFA from Columbia
University in New York.
Aram’s practice is largely confined to two-dimensional media, painting and drawing, and he has held solo
exhibitions at venues including LAXART, Los Angeles, USA (2010) and the Massachusetts Museum of
Contemporary Art, USA (2006). Group exhibitions include “Fresh From Chelsea: 21 New York Artists”,
The University Galleries, University of Florida, USA (2009), “Empire and its Discontents”, Tufts University
Art Gallery at the Aidekman Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA (2008) and “Greater New York 2005”,
PS1 Contemporary Art Center and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005).
WANG LUYAN 王魯炎 (B.1956)
W Two-way Automatic Machine Gun D07-2
Acrylic on canvas
75 x 100 cm
2007
Wang Luyan was born in 1956 in Beijing, China, where he continues to live and work.
In 1988 he graduated from the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China.
Specializing in painting, he has held solo exhibitions in China and also featured in group
exhibitions worldwide including “La Escuela Yi: Treinta Anos de Arte Abstracto Chino”,
Caixa Forum Madrid, Spain (2008), The Busan Biennale, South Korea (2008), “An Open
Individual”, Asia Society, New York, USA (1998) and the Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of
Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (1996).
GEORGE MARTIN P.J. (B.1973)
Slice of Ambience (12)
Acrylic on canvas
198.1 x 198.1 cm
2008
George Martin P.J. was born in Thiruvananthapuram, India in 1973, and he lives and works
in New Delhi, India. He earned a BFA in sculpture in 1998 from the College of Fine Arts,
Thiruvananthapuram, and an MVA in sculpture in 2001 from the Government College of Art &
Craft, Kolkata, India. While trained as a sculptor, he also practices painting and has participated
in several shows in India and abroad including “Beyond the Form”, Visual Arts Gallery at the India
Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India (2009), “Migration, City, Home”, Birla Academy of Art And Culture,
Kolkata, India (2003) and “Chroma”, Indisk/Norsk Kunst I Gatene, Bergen, Norway (2003) and
India Habitat Center, New Delhi (2002).
JITISH KALLAT (B.1974)
Analgesic Studies - 27
Oil, acrylic, ink, glitter and flame on board
70 x 50 cm
2005-2007
Jitish Kallat was born in 1974 in Mumbai, India, where he currently lives and works. He received
a BFA in painting from the Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai, in 1996 and has exhibited steadily ever
since. Kallat’s practice runs the gamut of contemporary practice including installation, sculpture,
photography, painting, drawing and collage.
Kallat has held solo exhibitions in India and abroad, including the USA, Australia, China, Korea,
Singapore, Switzerland and the UK. He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions,
highlights of which include “Indian Narrative in the 21st Century: Between Memory and History”,
Casa Asia, Madrid, Spain (2009), “Indian Highway”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK(2008), “Chalo!
India: A New Era of Indian Art”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2008), the Fifth Asia-Pacific
Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (2006) and “Century
City”, Tate Modern, London, UK (2001). His work is held in Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA;
the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai and New Delhi; and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum,
Japan.
JITISH KALLAT (B.1974)
Analgesic Studies - 54
Oil, acrylic, ink, glitter and flame on board
70 x 50 cm
2005-2007
Analgesic Studies - 51
Oil, acrylic, ink, glitter and flame on board
70 x 50 cm
2005-2007
BRENDA ZLAMANY (B.1960)
Flowers (after Warhol)
Oil on board
122 x 122 cm
2001-2002
Brenda Zlamany was born in New York City in 1960 where she continues to live and work.
Zlamany left home in 1974 to attend an art high school in New Haven and to study art at Yale
University. She also studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute; Atelier 17, in Paris; the Tyler
School of Art, in Rome; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She received a BA
from Wesleyan University in 1981. Her work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions
including “Unveiling of Portrait #41,” Galapagos Art and Performance Space, New York City,
USA (1999), “ The Pillow of Melancholy,” Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium (2000),
“Supereal,” Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2003), and “New Old Masters/ Nowi Dawni
Mistrzowie,” National Museum in Gdansk, Poland (2006-07).
BRENDA ZLAMANY (B.1960)
Mao (after Warhol)
Oil on board
122 x 122 cm
2001-2002
PLUM BLOSSOMS GALLERY
萬玉堂畫廊
G6, 1 Hollywood Road, Central, Hong Kong
中環荷李活道一號華懋荷李活中心地下六號
T: 852 2521 2189
F: 852 2868 4398
E: info@plumblossoms.com
W: www.plumblossoms.com