Chinese oil paintings and ancient furniture will be shown at two different exhibitions at the Today Art Museum.
The first exhibit, A Choice Collection: Sublime and Divine, and a second one focusing on 16th-17th century furniture, will open March 13. The exhibitions will run through April 11.
A Choice Collection: Sublime and Divine
One exhibition will feature almost 50 pieces of Ming Dynasty furniture, many of which were appraised by Wang Shixiang, a well-acclaimed Chinese expert and collector. The highlights include a huanghuali wooden bed noted for its fine tenon-and-mortise work, and a pair of huanghuali wooden cabinets.
The furniture exhibit is dedicated to Wang’s 100th anniversary, the man who mentored Hong Kong-based gallery founder Grace Wu Bruce, a co-organizer of the show, as she first began to venture into the world of furniture collection.
A pair of huanghuali wooden cabinets
Named after its founder and specializing in the finest examples of Chinese furniture from the 16th and 17th centuries, the gallery has mounted close to 40 exhibitions and published a number of essays and articles about art collection, which has touched both professional collectors and public audiences. The gallery’s collection, in Wang’s words, is “the best of the best.”
Look Inside: Reinventing Chinese contemporary art since 2000
This exhibit also aims to increase the presence of the pioneering artists whose works engage both the eye and mind, while also strengthening domestic collector tastes.
Li Yangfeng, director of the Chinese Oil Painting department said, “This exhibition brings together top-quality works by Shang Yang, Liu Ye, Liu Wei, Zhang Enlei and other pioneering artists, trying to explain what China Guardian has proposed - New Paintings.”
“The artists have devised special expressions that reflects on their inner world and focuses on ways the impact of their work can be increased,” and added, “They are drawing the collector’s attention, and their influence will become too big to ignore.”
A leading auction house in China, China Guardian has always given equal importance to oil paintings sales. As early as in 2010, it started launching sales of works by Chinese artists, and as a result it has experienced strong performances.