Booth C03
Edouard Malingue Gallery is pleased to present at ART021 2020 works by Eric Baudart (b. 1972, France), Günther Förg (1952-2013), He Yida (b. 1980, China), Liu Yin (b. 1984, China), Nabuqi (b. 1984, China), Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong, China), Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973, Luxembourg), Yu Ji (b. 1985, China) and Zheng Zhou (b.1969, China).
Delicately transposed, it’s the displaced materiality in Eric Baudart’s (b. 1972) works that spurs their contemporary resonance. Honeycombed plastic, millimetre paper, adhesive tape – everyday, commonplace utensils are flushed of everyday contextualisation and repurposed to create oeuvres that titter on the edge of artifice. Form, colour and rhythm are the cornerstones of renowned German abstract artist Günther Förg’s (1952-2013) practice, which spans painting, sculpture and photography. Since the 1970s, Förg has been a key artistic voice in the world of modernism, establishing recognition for his ‘gitter’ or ‘grid’ paintings that articulate considerations of colour and gesturality. He Yida’s (b. 1980) practice is not just an exploration of the language of sculpture, but also a reexamination of our cognitive process of familiar urban elements. He’s sculptural language of superficiality and morphology simultaneously becomes a reality regenerated from images, as well as phantom haunted from behind.
Liu Yin (b. 1984) is an artist based Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Her darkly humoured images reflect upon our ever-growing complacent approach to media consumption. Liu changes what we see through imposing heavily stylised, fantastical, manga-style eyes and backgrounds to these found images, bringing to light the falsity of the image as the bearer of truth in our current age of fast-paced media. What we perceive as real, the psychological nature of how we engage with objects and material, are running threads throughout the works of Nabuqi (b. 1984). Ranging from handmade sculptures to installations made from assembling readymades, there is a pull for the viewer to engage with detail and context, to be attuned to and reflect upon the spectrum between artificial and actual. As such, Nabuqi creates realms that prompt our understanding of the world around us and engage us in a play of spatial politics. Multicultural paradigms, weaved into a symphony of image and sound, are at the heart of Hong Kong artist and composer, Samson Young’s (b. 1979) practice. With a formal cross-cultural training in music composition, Young channels his attunement to melody by pushing it’s formalist boundaries to create innovative cross-media experiences that touch upon the recurring topics of identity, war and literature.
A trained classical cellist, Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973) weaves a meditative tale through her work. Empowered by the language of music, Tse’s practice spans mediums of video, installation and sculpture. Investigating associations between places, cultures and traditions, Tse’s delicate work elicits a cross-stimulation of the senses, where time and its flow are suspended in a gentle state of contemplation. Yu Ji’s (b.1985) current practice is motivated by the ongoing investigation into the specific location with geography and historical narratives. Her works have been associated closely with field researches, and show a strong interest in the intervention of specific space with the body. Taking materiality of the media she employs as the starting point and sculpture as the core, Yu Ji has been developing and enriching her own vocabulary of art. Her performances that happen together with exhibitions of her sculptures, reflecting and moderating the fragile presence of human and objects in their everyday environment, often turn the space of art into the site of labor. Lastly, Zheng Zhou (b. 1969) is a painter of instinct, conveying onto canvas observations from the world, as ad hoc as they may be. His strokes, furtive yet decisive, depict an urgency - to grasp, to depict, to capture that mesmeric multitude of the cosmos, the ‘phenomena’ we, or more precisely he, is a witness to.

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Collectors Preview:
2020, November 12, 14:00-20:00 By invitation only Last entry at 19:00
2020, November 13, 13:00-20:00 By invitation only Last entry at 19:00
Public days:
2020, November 14&15, 11:00-18:00 (Last entry at 17:00)

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