Reflection
Featuring Works by Li Shuang and Won Seok Lim
March 29 - May 27, 2005
Featuring Works by Li Shuang and Won Seok Lim
March 29 - May 27, 2005
Art Beatus
(Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd. is pleased to present Reflection,
featuring oil paintings on canvas by Li Shuang and acrylic on canvas
works by Won Seok Lim. Starting Tuesday, March 29 and running
through to Friday, May 27, 2005, Reflection offers a glimpse into the
foundation of each artist’s personal experiences echoed through their
art.
Won Seok Lim was born in 1966 in the heavily populated region of Seoul, Korea. A theology major and self-taught artist, Lim shares his memories of the Korean landscape, leading us through endless hills patterned by countless numbers of tiny shanty houses, the rubble of old villages, and the towering, monster high-rises which have taken their place. Conveyed is the feeling of traditional, close-knit communities lost in the move towards a modern way of life and culture. The link between past and present is evidently visible as the artist captures the contrasting eras of Korea’s landscape in his paintings.
Born in Beijing in 1957, Li Shuang grew up during the cultural revolution in China. Ten years of stringency, thought control and forced revolutionary fervor affected her painting. Li’s status as a rebellious artist and her request for permission to marry a foreigner, a French diplomat and visiting professor of Chinese history, led to the artist’s arrest in 1981. After serving a two-year sentence for re-education in a prison outside of Beijing, Li rejoined her fiancé in Paris. While Li Shuang’s work does not suggest anger or political suppression, her subjects, often women, do present a sense of strength, stillness and calm, balance and serenity; a quiet complexity. Li incorporates traditional objects such as vases, fruits and blossoms amongst her subjects, but it’s her particular striking style and use of rich, luxurious colour which give her paintings a thoroughly modern feel.
Won Seok Lim was born in 1966 in the heavily populated region of Seoul, Korea. A theology major and self-taught artist, Lim shares his memories of the Korean landscape, leading us through endless hills patterned by countless numbers of tiny shanty houses, the rubble of old villages, and the towering, monster high-rises which have taken their place. Conveyed is the feeling of traditional, close-knit communities lost in the move towards a modern way of life and culture. The link between past and present is evidently visible as the artist captures the contrasting eras of Korea’s landscape in his paintings.
Born in Beijing in 1957, Li Shuang grew up during the cultural revolution in China. Ten years of stringency, thought control and forced revolutionary fervor affected her painting. Li’s status as a rebellious artist and her request for permission to marry a foreigner, a French diplomat and visiting professor of Chinese history, led to the artist’s arrest in 1981. After serving a two-year sentence for re-education in a prison outside of Beijing, Li rejoined her fiancé in Paris. While Li Shuang’s work does not suggest anger or political suppression, her subjects, often women, do present a sense of strength, stillness and calm, balance and serenity; a quiet complexity. Li incorporates traditional objects such as vases, fruits and blossoms amongst her subjects, but it’s her particular striking style and use of rich, luxurious colour which give her paintings a thoroughly modern feel.
Art Beatus, with
a location in Vancouver, Canada and two locations in Hong Kong,
showcases international art with a focus on contemporary Chinese art.
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Nelson Street. For more information, please contact Media
Relations, Tamla Mah by email to info@artbeatus.com
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