2023 Para Site Benefit Auction
Venue: 22/F, Soho House Hong Kong, 33 Des Voeux Road West Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
Wang Gongyi has generously donated an artwork to the 2023 Para Site Benefit Auction. The auction preview is on view from 16-20 November 2023 at Soho House Hong Kong. Online bidding: www.ps2023auction.com.
Galerie du Monde is thrilled to share that Wang Gongyi's artwork fetched HKD 380,000 at the live auction at the Para Site gala on 22 November 2023.
Featured artwork:
In 2005, Wang's first experimentation with Winsor Blue was a revelation in her artistic practice. The artist finds that the unique watercolour manufactured by the British art supplier Winsor & Newton Co. is brilliantly alive on xuan paper. The subtle and delicate lines born out of the margins of the colour layering move on the paper like melodious musical notations, revealing the evocative traces of mountains, skies, water, and air. In 1980, Wang gained national recognition in China after being awarded first prize in the National Youth Fine Art Exhibition for her powerful suite of seven woodcuts depicting the Chinese revolutionary martyr Qiu Jin. In 1986, Wang was invited by the French Ministry of Culture as a visiting artist, and in 1992 she went to Aix-en-Provence and Lyon to further her studies in printmaking. She relocated to the United States in 2001. Select solo exhibitions include those at Portland Art Museum (2018), Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou (2013), and Tianjin Academy of Art Museum (2007). Group exhibitions include those at National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2019); and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2007). Her work is held in the public collections of Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; China Academy of Art, Hangzhou; M+, Hong Kong; National Museum of Art of China, Beijing; ar Y USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, among others.
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https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/2023-para-site-benefit-auction-preview/
