Calligraphy Rhapsody, a retrospective exhibition of the French oil painter Georges Mathieu, who died in 2012.
Since its inception last autumn, the sprawling, 105,000 sq ft cultural hotspot has featured work by artists including Mary Weatherford, Yayoi Kusama and Chris Huen Sin-kan.
The exhibition was co-presented by Adrian Cheng, founder of the K11 Group and K11 Art Foundation, and Alexandre Giorgini, consul general of France in Hong Kong and Macau, as part of a series of arts programmes to foster cross-cultural dialogue. Headlining the programme was
Calligraphy Rhapsody, curated by Catherine Kwai, founder of the Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery.
The retrospective spanned Mathieu’s career from the 1950s to the 1990s, bringing together works loaned by private collectors from around the world. Mathieu’s pieces are known to dwarf viewers, but his painting Remembering the
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3812 Gallery’s Calvin Hui on pioneering Chinese painters, ‘After Nature’, and his HK Art Week highlights Share
The veteran gallerist and connoisseur of contemporary Chinese art speaks to
Prestige about upcoming exhibitions, a change in 3812’s business premises, and the galleries he’s looking forward to visiting this week.
As day 1 of Hong Kong’s major for-profit art fairs (namely Art Basel and Art Central) rolls to a close, we take a moment to chat briefly with Calvin Hui the latest face in our curated series of art month interviews. An avowed expert in contemporary Chinese art (notably in the areas of ink and acrylic painting) Hui is celebrating 10 years this May of 3812, the gallery he co-founded with Mark Peaker that is present in Hong Kong and London.