This autumn we return to Brussels for our second participation at Art on Paper in Brussels. This year the fair will take place at the iconic Gare Maritime at Tour &Taxis, giving the fair a fantastic open character.
We look forward to sharing the works of Zhu Hong, Ma Hui and Chung-Hsi Han. All three have a fascination with nature and water.
WORKS
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ARTISTS
Ma Hui is a Chinese Born Artist, living in Amsterdam and is famous for her knowledge of and expression in using ink on paper. As a first generation immigrant Ma Hui feels a strong bond with her motherland. Inspired by her childhood memories and personal attachment to her hometown, she expresses her emotion through the stroke of ink.
Ma Hui was born in Chengde, Hebei Province in 1958, to the family of a high-ranking party official. Her extensive range of artworks embodies her two very different cultural identities in a number of ways. Her feelings about shuimo, Chinese ink and water on paper, stem from her days of early childhood on the banks of the Yellow River in Ningxia.
Chung-Hsi Han (The Hague, 1958) was born and raised in The Netherlands by Chinese-Indonesian parents. After his degree in Civil Engineering at the TU Delft, Han moved to Nepal to work there for a couple years on the engineering of bridges. There he found himself surrounded by the most beautiful wild nature. As he walked from one bridge to the other for work assignments, he found himself walking on little goat paths, amongst the vast lush nature. This made a great impression on Han and is still his greatest source of inspiration. Later when Han started studying at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague from 1993-1997, he found a way to channel this inspiration into drawings.
Zhu Hong (Shanghai ,1975) lives and works in Nantes. She moved to France to study art at ENSA of Dijon in counterpoint to her classical painting training in Shanghai.
Zhu Hong has a fascination for light and an intuitive ability to capture its essence in her drawings and paintings. The ultrafine delicacy of her works brings the eye to a level of heightened attention, inviting the viewer to make an effort to distinguish an image between the opaque and the glossy.