Recently exhibited in Hong Kong, causing a great sensation and breathtaking impression, “Art with Me – Master and Pupils Joint Exhibition by Lee Sun-Don and Ma Sing Ling", extends this thrilling momentum from Hong Kong to Taiwan. Starting from August 17, Frontier Art • X-Power Gallery is to hold the “Full Moon, Spring Blossom - Master and Pupils Joint Exhibition by Lee Sun-Don & Ma Sing Ling
Blossom” — Maser and Pupils Joint Exhibition by Lee Sun-Don and Ma Sing Ling in its galleries in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung.
Lee Sun-Don Wonderful Clouds / Wondrous Propitiousness Acrylic on Canvas 200x100cm 2013 Lee Sun-Don Wonderful Clouds / Incredibly Marvelous Acrylic on Canvas 130x162cm 2013
The works on display are Professor Lee's latest series “Wonderful Clouds”, and Ma Sing Ling's two series, “Fantasy of Art” and “Floral Moon Duet.”
Internationally reputed, the "Contemporary Oriental Picasso" Professor Lee Sun-Don is the first artist in Asia in the past a hundred years of art history to ever participate in the “Venice Biennale” in an "Individual Oil Painting Pavilion.”
The exhibited series “Wonderful Clouds” are works created with the mind-eye to depict a state of being, rather than the realistic representations. In the creation, allowing the paint to develop and change spontaneously, the artist managed the figurative as well as the abstract presentation simultaneously, using both the explicit and the implicit way of expression.
The series reveals the beauty of flowing energies, powerful momentum, high originality, and a deep philosophical Zen mood. Professor Lee told Hong Kong media in an interview about his creative concept of this series: "The most important concept in Buddhism is 'One United Form', focusing on uniting the opposing states into oneness", "Put together the colors or conditions that are not supposed to be put together in the history of Western art, to break these rules with Buddhist doctrines. This is a way never used before."
Studying under Professor Lee Sun-Don, "Ma Sing Ling" is the Asian woman artist trio whose joint creations have been appreciated and collected by the President of Kelti Chen Wu-gang, the Chairman of Industrial Bank of Taiwan Kenneth C.M. Lo, the President of Jih Sun Group Chen Kwok-hei and other major collectors.
The exhibited “Fantasy of Art” series continues the feature underlying all their works “to fully challenge the flowing and flexibility of oil paint.” In that free, unpredictable flowing, they added new concepts and ideas, to face all kinds of things with a broad, artistic mind, to use their imagination to experience the marvel and subtlety of the world even through the works of classical music masters.
The series “Floral Moon Duet” symbolizing wealth and perfection of life shows, however, a different style from the past. Each piece has a red-lacquered door and a moon, meaning only with magnanimity, wisdom and compassion one can accord with what the image of moon symbolizes – perfection of life. The delicate strokes used in this series, though rarely seen in Ma Sing Ling's works, nonetheless reveal the unique romantic mood of woman artists.
Ma Sing Ling Floral Moon Duet / Opening with Golden Luck Acrylic on Canvas 145x145cm 2013
Ma Sing Ling Fantasy of Art / The Sky of Florence Acrylic on Canvas 145x145cm 2013
Ma Sing Ling Fantasy of Art / Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Acrylic on Canvas 162x130cm 2013
藝術家簡介: (網路資料) Saenkom Chansrinual 泰國/ 1967/ 藝術家 教育背景： 1989 Thaivichisilp School 1992 Poh-Chang Academy of Arts 1995 Srinakharinwirot University 展覽/獲獎 經歷： 2012 台北新藝術博覽會 2007 “大山”主題展 於曼谷都實他尼酒店舉辦 2004 -2005 泰國王后Sirikit登基72周年展覽 2003 “生活與自然”主題展（曼谷Grand酒店舉辦） 2000 作品“Announcement of Frame”榮獲東盟藝術獎 1997 曼谷國家畫廊第55屆當代藝術展 簡評： Saenkom Chansrinual 創作此獨特系列稱為“宏偉山脈”向大自然的偉大與山頂天堂般的景觀致敬。在這個系列中，他運用自己的獨特的技法，擠出先融化的固態壓克力，層層疊疊地塗繪到畫布上，以形成壯觀的山景，讓觀畫者沈浸於一種寧靜的氛圍之中。除了創造出豐富紋理之外，他的終極技法是應用金屬性顏料，形成十分迷人的立體透視效果。
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-- Thai/ 1967/ Artist Education： 1989 Thaivichisilp School 1992 Poh-Chang Academy of Arts 1995 Srinakharinwirot University Exhibitions/Awards： 2007 "Grand Mountain" at The Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok 2004 -2005 72nd Anniversary Queen Sirikit Exhibitions, Bangkok 2003 "Life & Nature" at The Grand Hotel, Bangkok 2000 "Announcement of Frame" won the ASEAN Art Award 1997 The 55th Contemporary Art Exhibition of the National Gallery, Bangkok Comment： Saenkom Chansrinual created this unique collection of artwork titled "Grand Mountain" to pay tribute to the greatness of nature and the heavenly view from the top of the mountain. In this artwork collection, he used a self-formulated technique in which the solid acrylic were first melted, squeezed, and painted in an overlay manner, one-by-one painstakingly onto the canvas to form magnificent mountain scenery which transports the viewers into a sense of peacefulness. Apart from the rich texture he created, his ultimate skill in applying the metallic paints to create the three-dimensional perspective effects in his artwork is fascinated.
Artist Sun Don Lee's new work: Wonderful Clouds / Soaring Dragon • Supreme Nobility Year: 2013 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Size: 100x200cm (100F)
Soaring dragon is a sign of getting famous or fortune in Chinese tradition.
And people might use Mandarin word 利, (read as li4) to illustrate the revenue, the interest.
To write the word as following stroke sequence,
You might write "禾" as the first part (means cereals or grains), and "刂" as the second one, also the radical index, which means a knife.
In ancient time, farmers harvest the grains by using knief, and get the their revenue. In artist Sun Don Lee's new work, Wonderful Clouds / Soaring Dragon • Supreme Nobility, we could see the clouds soaring like a flying dragon above the mountains, and there is a temple just located at the middle of mountains in the artwork. Artist creates this series of artwork with the style of Chinese painting, to demonstrate the inner world of a Chinese artist, based on Taiwan where most of Chinese culture preserved in the modern time.
In this series of works, Lee uses monochrome ink to depict the natural mountains and clouds with abstract idea, while painting different light and dark areas by regulating the moisture of the ink (in fact acrylic). The most prominent idea of this series of works is the location of the temple. Chinese people believe that when heaven, earth and humankind, the three dominance reaches balance and work effectively, the fortune and fame comes. So the location of a building would suggest not only convenience of daily life, but also the revenue created without limitation when combing the spirits from heaven and human beings. "Where is my temple?" Lee asks himself this question at the last stage of painting creation, and draws the temple on the canvas to make a finale perfect, but with unlimited bliss for anyone who enjoy the artwork. And where is your temple to make your life with real revenue such as healthy, joy or fortune?
Maybe you can find some answers from Sun Don Lee's new "Wonderful Clouds" works at X-Power Gallery!
Wonderful Clouds / Wondrous Propitiousness
2013/Acrylic on Canvas/200x100cm (100F)
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Sun Don Lee(李)'s profile:
Painting Artist: Pioneer of Totemic Energy Oil Painting
More current status of artist, please check the website,
Year of Birth: 1959
Birth Place: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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