群展 GROU SHO 24/01/2020 - 27/02/2020

HdM1. GALLERY is delighted to2. present a group show on January3. 24th– February 27th 2020. The4. group show displays4. artworks5. from abstraction, figuration to contemporary works, featuring artists HdM GALLERY represents. It provides an opportunity for visitors to go through the development and evolution of Chinese Contemporary art.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 郝世明 云永业 云永业 云永业 云永业 Hao Sn n onye n onye n onye n onye 出石 No.5 爱侣 迷星 (17) 迷星 (19) 迷星 (18) Yun YongyeCornerstone – Born No.5 in Hainan China in 1990,Lover Yun Yongye graduatedMazzy in 2012 Star from (17) the DepartmentMazzy of Oil Star Painting (19) of Hubei InstituteMazzy of Star Fine (18) Arts. He 石上丙烯，雕刻 纸本铅笔 纸本铅笔 纸本铅笔 纸本铅笔 now worksacrylic onand stone, lives carving in Beijing. Paintedpencil in traditional on paper realistic style withpencil many on paper works named after thepencil Eastern on paper and Western Literaturepencil onand paper art, Yongye 22 × 32 × 46 cm 21 × 21cm 21 × 21 cm 21 × 21cm 21 × 21 cm experiments in2018 storytelling and creates a narrative2018 in his works. Yongye’s works2018 have been shown in Asia Now2018 2019. 2018 Zhang6. Shujian – Born in Hunan7. Province in 1987, Zhang Shujian8. graduated from the 4th studio9. of the Oil Painting Department10. of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2010. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Shujian is known for his outstanding technique that seeks to combine Eastern and Western methods. Using oil painting or pencil on paper, he produces grotesque portraits of imaginary characters and close-ups of human faces that seek to draw our attention to rarely noticed features of our anatomy. Following graduation, his work was the object of solo shows in galleries and institutions including UCCA, Taikang Space, C-Space and Canvas International Art in Amsterdam.

Chen Han – 云永业 Born in Liaoning in 1973, Chen云永业 Han graduated in 2005 from云永业 the Lu Xun Academy of Fine云永业 Arts where he became a teacher.张书笺 He now lives n onye n onye n onye n onye an San in Shenyang and works in Beijing. With his painterly portraits and still lives, the works of Chen Han give the viewer a sense of uneasiness by letting him 无名日 皇帝的臆症 坠落 飞行员的残骸 费拉 2.1 e Unnamed Days e Emperor's Conjecture Falling e Wreckage of Pilot Fellaheen 2.1 partake in the intimate moments of the painting’s characters. Chen Han has been featured in both national and international group exhibitions, including 木上油画 木上油画 木上油画 木上油画 木板综合材料 oil on wood block oil on wood block oil on wood block oil on wood block mixed media on board Art Brussels,dia. Art 12.5cm Taipei, Lu Xun Academy8 of × 7Fine cm Arts Museum, Hongdingdia. 11.5cmGallery and M50 Creative Gardendia. 9.5cm Shanghai. 30 × 21 cm 2018 - 2019 2019 2019 2018 - 2019 2019 Zhu Rixin – Born in Jiujiang in 1986, Zhu Rixin graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a 11. 12. 13. 14. master’s degree. He now lives and works in Beijing. In the past few years, Rixin has been using landscape architecture theory to illustrate maps of the world. He tries to combine it with other disciplines so as to create a new aesthetic system. Using pens or oil paintings he creates imaginary geological phenomena and human conflicts that alter the relief of existing geographical locations, resulting in a collision between natural powers and fictional boundaries. His

2018 works have been exhibited in domestic and international museums and art fairs, including Art Museum of Repin Academy of Fine Arts, He Xiangning Art Museum, CAFA Art Museum, Art Brussel and Shanghai Art 021

Peng Jian – 张书笺Born in Yueyang, Hunan Province in 陈晗1982, Peng Jian graduated with a master’s陈晗 degree from the China Academy of Art朱日新 at Hangzhou in an San Cen Han Cen Han Rn 2013. He now费拉 lives No.13 and works in Hangzhou. Like远方的来信 other “New Ink” artists, Peng Jian uses traditional拥抱 Chinese painting materials to produce细胞膜 contemporary Fellaheen No.13 Letter From Afar Embrace Cytomembrane works. His木板综合材料 paintings are mainly divided into 2 series:布面油画 one shows vistas of Chinese cities seen布面油画 from inside a scholar’s room while the布面丙烯、针管笔 other features piles of oil on wood oil on canvas oil on canvas archival ink pen and acrylic on canvas brightly coloured55 × 50 cmbooks adroitly arranged to resemble35 × 60 abstract cm works. His works have been 35exhibited × 60 cm in domestic and international museums40 × 40 cm and art fairs, 2015 2012 2012 2019 HdM GALLERY HdM GALLERY is a leading contemporary gallery with a special focus on including the National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Today Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hongik Museum of Art, Sydney City

Hall, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Art Basel Hong Kong, etc. HdM GALLERY was opened in Beijing in 2009 - the success of which Hao Shiming – Born in 1977 in Heze, Shandong Province, Hao Shiming graduated from the traditional painting department of the Tianjin Academy of leading to a subsequent gallery opening in Hangzhou in 2013. Founders and partners Hadrien de Montferrand, Laurant Dassault, and Olivier Hervet Fine Arts in 2000. He now lives and works in Wuhan and Beijing. A member of the ‘New Ink’ movement, Shiming uses traditional materials – ink, rice have garnered over 10 years of experience and understanding of the art paper, ground colours – to produce a new form of classical paintings which combine calligraphy techniques with western painting methods. Shiming’s - subjects range from calligraphy to traditional motifs like birds and mountains to completely abstract works. Shiming was featured in both national and tem. Beijing space international group exhibitions, including National Art Museum of China, Shanghai Art Museum, Today Art Museum, Sydney College of the Arts SCA HdM GALLERY proudly represents a wealth of emerging Chinese artists Galleries, Royal College of Art Gallery, etc. among which are He An, Chen Han, Hao Shiming, and Wang Yi. Having Yang Yongliang – Born in Shanghai in 1980, Yang Yongliang graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2003. He now lives and works between Shanghai - porary art - working with established Chinese artists such as Mao Yan and and New York. Working primarily with photography and video, Yongliang is famed for his wry subversion of Chinese traditional landscape paintings Liu Xiaodong - HdM GALLERY is dedicated to using their expertise to where mountains are replaced by the combined photos of hundreds of skyscrapers and residential buildings. More recently he has been creating videos nurture and develop the careers of these new artists. Exhibiting regularly at which extend the scope of his photographs by having animated elements such as cars, boats, waterfalls and advertising boards. His work has been included prominent fairs such as Art Brussels, Photo London and Art Basel Hong Kong, HdM introduces contemporary Chinese artists to a worldwide client in numerous exhibitions including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, Museum of base and broadens perceptions, understanding and appreciation of these Contemporary Art Shanghai and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. engaging contemporary works. Lu Chao – Born in 1988 in Shenyang, Lu Chao is a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and of Royal College of Art in London. He now London space lives and works in London. Lu Chao’ s oil paintings use a subtle technique with extensively detailed and traditionally Chinese black and white aesthetic to has since seen a development. HdM has evolved to work with noted Western prompt a profound feeling of mystery and imagination. His works have been widely exhibited in galleries and institutions in China and abroad, including at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris, MOCA Shanghai, in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu and the Today Art Museum. bridging the Chinese and Western art markets through this previously Xie Lei – Born in 1983 in Huainan, Anhui province, China, Xie Lei lives and works in Paris since 2006. He graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts and École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris and received his PhD (practice-based) in visual arts in 2016 from École normal supérieure and Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. In Xie Lei’s works, the humans and animals are more anonymous, more purely archetypal figures strong Chinese DNA’. Western artists such as Martin Kollar, Ivan Messac, Romain Bernini, Manuel Mathieu and Barthélémy Toguo are currently repre- powerfully evoked, but without individual features – ghost forms his nether world – compelling, dark, threatening even. Like dreams, these works are sented by HdM GALLERY. deeply allusive, full of opaque meanings. Xie Lei’s work is included in public and private collections, such as Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL) and Burger Collection. He has also been exhibited widely in France, Switzerland and China. FOUNDERS Ye Linghan – Born in 1985 in Lishui, Zhejiang, Ye Linghan graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2009. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Hadrien de Montferrand has long served as a bridge between the Art worlds of China Inspired by the collage work of Henri Matisse, Linghan combines, oil, acrylic, collage and spray paint providing a panorama of the wealth of artistic and Europe. His more than seven years at various auction houses and Art institutions techniques today. His works capture a state of perpetual layering and transformation; reflecting the repetitive flux of information that engulfs us in an age included roles as marketing director for ARTCURIAL, the largest French auction where the internet and technology are all-consuming and omnipresent. Linghan’s works have been widely collected and exhibited at notable institutions house, and for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. and galleries, amongst which Shanghai K11 Art Museum, MOCA Shanghai, Shenzhen OCT Art Terminal, Shanghai Mingsheng Art Museum and JNBY Laurent Dassault , an entrepreneur to the core, helped to found Arquana, continental Beijing. Europe’ s leading horse auction house, in 2006. His entrepreneurial spirit extends to his charitable activities as well: Laurent serves as the administrator of the “Friends of Wang Yi – Born in 1991 in Shanghai and graduated from the China Academy of Art in 2013. Wang Yi now lives and works in Shanghai. Wang Yi’s Pompidou Museum’ s Association” in Paris, and heads the development committee practice is closely related to the new abstract movement in China initiated by Ding Yi. Obviously influenced by Frank Stella and Vasarely, his works rely for the auction house ARTCURIAL. on chromatic variations and geometrical shapes to create an illusion of movement and depth within the canvas. His work has already been exhibited at the Olivier Hervet graduated with an MA in Classics from Oxford University in 2008. Minsheng Art Museum, China Academy of Art Museum, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and at the Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art. After working for Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery since its inception in 2009 where Qian Jiahua – Born in 1987 in Shanghai, Qian Jiahua graduated from Hangzhou’s China Academy of Art in 2011. She now lives and works in Shanghai. he developed the gallery’ s network of young collectors, he became a partner in 2012 Jiahua is a painter working mainly with acrylic, she produces geometric abstract works where large patches of colour are delimited by thin contrasting lines. with the goal of opening a second space in China. She tries to break the easy balance of a rectangular canvas by the use of simple forms. Her work has already been largely exhibited including at White Cube London, K11 Museum Shanghai, Long Museum Shanghai and Henglu Art Museum Hangzhou. Gallery Contact Manuel Mathieu – Born in Haiti in 1986, Manuel Mathieu studied Visual and Media Arts at the he University of Quebec in Montreal and obtained a [email protected] Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, the University of London in 2016. He works with mixed media, painting and drawing. Manuel’s work is 1st Floor, 42 Conduit Street, Mayfair, London W1S 2YH deeply personal, often paints self-portraits and family portraits that reflecting on his personal history and traumas. Mathieu’s works are in the collections Opening Hours: Monday – Friday from 10 am to 6pm (By appointment) of the Rubell Family in Miami and JP Morgan in New York. His works have been shown in major museums internationally including the Museum of the Follow us on Instagram: hdm_gallery Americas, Washington, D.C.; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec, Musée de la civilisation in Quebec. He has also exhibited at the Grand Palais www.hdmgallery.com in Paris and ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in London HdM GALLERY HdM GALLERY is a leading contemporary gallery with a special focus on

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