亞洲百年來第一位以「個人油畫館」參展威尼斯雙年展的藝術家李善單教授,以及亞洲首團女子藝術三人組Ma Sing
Ling瑪馨玲──同步入選「英國皇家油畫畫家協會第125屆年度評選」(125th Annual Exhibition, The Royal
Institute of Oil Painters), 再添國際榮耀。
位於倫敦、成立於1882年的「英國皇家油畫畫家協會」,在1909年由英國國王愛德華七世賜封「皇家」榮銜,足以顯示其在油畫藝
術領域的重要地位。
此一擁有130年歷史的組織,年度競賽開放給全球藝術家參賽,表現傑出者可被票選為準會員,五年內視其表現及藝術成就,可由現任會員提名,並經由票選而成為正式會員。但「英國皇家油畫畫家協會」正式會員人數始終限制在65人左右,可見評選標準之嚴格。
Joe come to me at the coffee shop of X-Power Gallery Taipei last Sunday. She just come back from Prague several days ago. She is a tour guide, and the last trip hit her fifth guidance for Taiwan tourists in Czech and the areas nearby. During the simple and quick conversation by the table and free refilled herbal tea, the name of city, Prague was mentioned maybe just 2 or 3 times, and it made its way that afternoon.
I recalled one artwork "King" (by art group Ma Sing Ling
this summer (2012)) and Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal's famous book "I served the King of the England"(我曾伺候過英國國王). Prague is the scenery set of this book.
"Hrabal's two best-known novels are Closely Observed Trains (Ostře sledované vlaky) (1965) and I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále), both of which were made into movies by the Czech director, Jiří Menzel (1966 and 2006, respectively).
Menzel's adaptation of Closely Observed Trains won an Oscar in 1967." (Wiki data)
Ma Sing Ling is a collaborative
working team comprised of three young promising artists in Taiwan:
MANIHOO, Singway and Ling Ling. These young artists have developed
quite tacit understanding with one another, X-Power Gallery thus brings
them together to spark new light. Their first attempt to create as a
trio is “Form of Unity,” a series featuring the beauty of
grandeur, magnificence, and incredible coherence. One of their
creations in this series has been selected into the 159th Autumn
Exhibition organized by Royal West of England Academy, United Kingdom
(2011). More information, please check the Ma Sing Ling Website or X-Power Gallery.
Joe come to me at the X-Power Gallery that afternoon, and I remembered the essence from the book "I Served the King of England" is nothing but "Joy".
Hrabal noted the joy comes from the death, by the story of the Czech attendant, who was inspired by English King or other dignitaries (even Ethiopia King) and engraved to seek for fame and fortune all his life, and finally got peace and joy upon his death, alone.
While Ma Sing Ling瑪馨玲, this collaborative art group of 3 artists from Taiwan, expressed the idea of joy and peach come from genuine King from our innate, by the painting "King" and their method of creation, "Form of Unity".
She trained extensively in piano, dance, and acting which she fully integrated in the development of her work. In the late 70"s she designed stage sets at UCLA where she earned her BFA and later designed sets for the Palm Springs Dance Company. Cathy has painted for close to three decades. She is the protege of Kwok Wai Lau with whom she was mentored privately for six years. Kwok Wai Lau is a former faculty member of the International Art School, Hong Kong and guest lecturer for The Art Institute of Chicago and School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Cathy is exhibiting internationally. Her paintings and sculptures are in private and public collections nationwide. She was awarded "Best of Show" at The Palm Springs Art Museum's 37th National Exhibition. In the last seven years her award-winning work has been shown and awarded in 26 national and international exhibitions selected by many distinguished jurors in the art field, including world renowned art critics, Donald Kuspit, Phyllis Tuchman, and Kenneth Baker: museum curators of the Metropolitan, Museum of Modern Art/New York, Whitney, Guggenheim, Chrysler, Corcoran, Terra Museum of American Art, and Spertus Museum, as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Walker Art Center, and the Art Student's League. Her work was also awarded "Best Oil Painting", by the Director of Education for the Paul Mellon Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as selected by the Editor-in-Chiefs of "American Artist Magazine" and "The Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine". Awards: 2006 - Cover Artist for the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics Exhibition 2008 - First place Lenore Segan Award for New York's Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation 2009 - National Visual Arts Competition and has showcased her work at the Hollis Taggart Gallery in Manhattan. 2010 - commissioned artist for the Vail Jazz Festival. 2011 - cover artist for the international CEO Compass Magazine where her paintings "Spring Dreams" and "Metamorphosis" are featured.
Cathy Pitts Is currently debuting her work in Taipei as an invited featured international artist at Art Revolution Taipei (A.R.T.) 台北新藝術博覽會 in the Taipei World Trade Center Show Hall 2 and is now exhibiting throughout Taiwan in the X-Power Gallery 寶勝畫廊in Taichung and Kaohsiung. More information about Cathy Pitts, please visit her ArtSlant's site: http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/132464-cathy-pitts?tab=PROFILE.
Photographer李善單Lee Sun Don(Frontier Art & X-Power Gallery,), Title: Smiling Area 3, Year: 2010, Medium: Chromogenic C-Print
Size: 60x40cm
Award Winning: 1.Winning Honorable Mentions in The 4rd DIGA Central North Georgia Digital Circuit, USA.
Accepted into 2.NAPSL 30th Anniversary International Photographic Exhibition, Sri Lanka. (Digital C-Print)
3.3rd Digital Photo Award "MAN and NATURE" 2010, Austria
4.Central Washington State Fair's 56th International Photographic Exhibition, USA.
亞洲首個女子藝術創作團體瑪馨玲 Ma Sing Ling 美國首展,將於14日(周日)在洛杉磯比佛利美術館開幕,展覽一直延續到12月14日,歡迎民衆前往欣賞。
由台灣新鋭藝術家張心禹(MANIHOO)、王馨薇(Singway)與鄭如玲(Ling Ling)所組成的Ma Sing Ling瑪馨玲創作三人組,雖然成軍時間不長,但她們的雕塑及藝術作品氣勢磅礡,獲重量級收藏家青睞,更是獲得國際藝術獎項不斷,可謂台灣之光!
下圖是瑪馨玲Ma Sing Ling 與收藏家 陳武剛董事長、陳國和總裁、指導老師李善單 (Sun Don Lee) 教授合影 圖片來源取自瑪馨玲臉書粉絲團]
Profile of Artist Liu Baojun (Origin: http://www.xpower-gallery.com)
Born in 1963
in Dandong, the Liaoning Province of China, Liu Baojun, who has been an
artist for 38 years now, began teaching himself about painting at the
age of 7. He came to Shanghai in 2003 where he launched his unique
artistic style. Since then, Liu has been reputed as one of the most
representative painters in China. His unmatched and exquisite style,
made clear in the Pipe-smoking Women series, has made his work the most
sought-after in the art market.
Liu is masterful when it comes to
meticulous details with his proficient skill and exquisite touch. Both
in turn compliment his perfect control over the manipulation of colors
and shadows. The artist's aesthetic in his painting is full of rich
textures. He depicts the beauty of tranquility through the figures in
his paintings, either sitting in front of desks or reclining in chairs,
revealing relaxed or lazy expressions. Every work is refined from deep
life experiences through a rich and vivid painting language. Roaming in
between realism and modernism, the artist demonstrates his gift in style
manipulation. Even though Liu possesses a profound understanding in the
style of traditional and modern art expressions, the very core is the
content itself. From a traditional prospective, his works reveal a
gentle and warm aesthetic appeal. While being mingled with the tradition
of the modern arts, his works not only brim with passions and
vitalities, but also a classic mellowness.
Honors and Award
2012
Selected into the 6th International Prize Arte Laguna, Italy 2011
Selected into the 2012 annual exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), UK
Selected into The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI), UK.
Selected into Royal West of England Academy 159th Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, UK. 2003
The first Prize of the Liaoning Province Film Promotion Contest, China
是台灣近年來發展快速、少數以國際化策略經營當代藝術的畫廊。2012下半年,寶勝畫廊連番出擊:先有重量級藏家雲集、佳評如潮的台灣新銳藝術家三人組Ma Sing Ling瑪馨玲「合氣一相」震撼大展;再以極具潛力的中國新銳藝術家推出「鋒芒露‧新銳藝術家聯展」;10月6日起由上海最火紅的藝術家劉寶軍為首,率兩岸有為青年藝術家裴連志、呂嫦謀、賴雅琦、俞潔兒與陳誼欣等,在寶勝畫廊策畫下,推出「風華展‧畫壇有為青年聯展」。
結合時尚與藝術,近年來聞名世界的台灣國際精品集團──香華天,繼比佛利與上海之後,再度於香港成立旗艦店,於2012年9月22日週六下午盛大開幕。現場貴賓雲集,JP Morgan董事總經理何淑賢、中信投資集團董事主席鍾嘉進、新東方投資集團總裁玳宇、Kord
Industry Group科達工業集團董事長李新東、香港半山扶輪社社長顧月修、前荃灣扶輪社社長張有光,以及香港青年事務委員會代表、太平紳士的李忠、陸海伉儷、Deacons律師事務所合夥人許揚律師,紛紛受邀蒞臨;建築設計師、金融銀行界、商業界、會計師、律師等各界名仕熱情參與,盛況空前。
「香華天‧新藝境」的寶勝畫廊主要經營當代藝術,以獨到的眼光、精準的策略,成功地將不少藝術家推上國際舞台。這次因香港旗艦店開幕,寶勝畫廊特別推出享譽國際的藝術家李善單教授以及亞洲首團女子藝術三人組「Ma Sing Ling瑪馨玲」的創作展。吸引台灣、港澳、大陸、新加坡、美國、歐洲等許多國家的藝術愛好者以及藏家前來。
近來備受矚目的台灣新銳藝術家女子三人組繪畫團體──「Ma
Sing Ling瑪馨玲」,首度合力創作的「合氣一相」第一幅作品立即獲得入選「西英國皇家藝術學院第159屆秋季展」的亮眼佳績;今年九月再以最新作品獲得「美國前衛藝術57屆國際公開藝術展」國際組首獎。此次香港旗艦店展出的作品系列有「合氣一相」當中的「水唱」、「金彩藍得」、「重彩空靈」、「如是居易」、「雲遊天下」等,其中200號的大幅作品〈合氣一相/雲遊天下‧大步無疆〉以及〈合氣一相/水唱‧黃河之水天上來〉更是氣勢非凡,引發藏家爭相收藏。
除了結合藝術的時尚與生活精品,「香華天.新藝境」香港旗艦店的另一大重點,則是國際化經營、以當代藝術為主的寶勝畫廊。透過全球佈點、中華文化與西方繪畫語言做全面交流的寶勝畫廊,因獨到眼光與精準策略,已成功把不少藝術家推上國際舞台:先有揚名國際、亞洲百年來首位以「油畫個人館」獲邀參加「威尼斯雙年展」的台灣藝術家李善單教授,近年則有旗下代理的台灣新銳藝術家三人組「Ma Sing Ling瑪馨玲、童勝和及中國大陸劉寶軍等人,均獲得入選「西英國皇家藝術學院第159屆秋季展」的亮眼佳績。其中近來備受台灣重量級藏家力挺的瑪馨玲,更以最新作品再獲「美國前衛藝術57屆國際公開藝術展」國際組首獎!
2012年9月22日,「香華天.新藝境」香港旗艦店開幕,寶勝畫廊即為所有貴賓獻上李善單教授與Ma Sing Ling瑪馨玲創作展。享譽國際的李善單教授,曾在2009年以自創「圖騰能量油畫」獲義大利佛羅倫斯雙年展繪畫類「羅倫佐獎章」等44項國際大獎榮耀,國際藝術界泰斗奧利瓦教授(Prof. Achille Bonito Oliva)對其創作深感震撼與讚賞,於評論中稱之為「超前衛藝術家」,如實反映出李教授作品的國際評價;美麗與才氣兼具的瑪馨玲,則以名為「合氣一相」的一系列抽象畫作,充分挑戰油彩的流動與自由性,在不可預測的變化中,合力創作出氣勢磅礡、如張大千潑墨般令人驚艷的凝目之作! 隨著「香華天.新藝境」旗艦店進駐香江,勢必在帶動時尚熱潮之外,再為香港收藏家與愛藝者大開國際當代藝術之門。(瑪馨玲Ma Sing Ling 創作- 同境 - 最新作品-正在台北寶勝畫廊X-Power Gallery展出)