Wei Ligang: Chinese Palaces
Wei Ligang, one of the most significant Chinese talents creating contemporary ink art today, has been selected by Michael Goedhuis as the subject of a 2014 Asia Week New York exhibition 14 March – 22 March 2014 as the gallerist celebrates 25th anniversary of his work in the field in London, New York and elsewhere. Born in Datong, Shanxi, in 1964, Wei Ligang has been at the forefront of contemporary ink painting’s development from its...
‘Everything is possible’ for 4 London artists
Four international artists have got together for a London Hanmi Gallery exhibition, When Nothing is Sure, Everything is possible, 9-19 January 2014, writes SAJID RIZVI. Hanmi Gallery founder Heashin Kwak has been holding interim exhibitions, awaiting the gallery premises’ final refurbishment. This is her 29th interim exhibition and features yet another array of new artists waiting to be discovered for larger audiences. Two of...
Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq
Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq at London’s Courtauld Gallery (20 February to 18 May 2014) explores one of the most rare and beautiful objects in the collection of this academic institution, part of the University of London. It is a brass bag inlaid with gold and silver, made in Northern Iraq around 1300. Decorated with a courtly scene showing a couple surrounded by their retinue of courtiers as well as...
Jameel Prize 2013 goes to Turkish fashion designers
The third biannual Jameel Prize has gone to Turkish fashion designer Dice Kayek, a label established in Paris in 1992 by sisters Ece and Ayse Ege. The GBP 25,000 Jameel Prize 3 went to the sisters, native of Bursa, for Istanbul Contrast, a collection of garments that evoke Istanbul’s architectural and artistic heritage. The judges felt that Dice Kayek’s work demonstrates how vibrant and creative Islamic traditions continue to be...
All set for London’s 20|21 Art Fair, 2014
The next 20|21 International Art Fair will take place in the prestigious and historic galleries of the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 15 to 18 May 2014, the organisers announced. Now in its eighth year, the fair moved from February to May in 2013, a change which was popular with both visitors and exhibitors. On show will be modern and contemporary art from Britain and around the world. There are a number of...
Four Living Treasures of Japan
Exemplary work of four of Japan’s greatest living artists is presented in a Fine Art Society exhibition in London. The latest in the gallery’s series of homages to the arts of Japan, a series which stretches back to the 1880s, the exhibition presents the work of Jun Isezaki, Kunihiko Moriguchi, Kazumi Murose and Noboru Fujinuma. Living National Treasure is the popular term for Important Intangible Cultural Property, an individual so...
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