ABOUT HUANG RUI AND THE EXHIBITION
HUANG RUI
Born in Beijing, China 1952
10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present a solo project by Huang Rui for Art Basel Miami 2019.
This body of work, Kyoto Image Series was done by the artist in the late 1990s. The exhibition will present two floor installations of photographs framed by steel panels, three mixed media wall pieces made from the rubble of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake and a series of black and white photographs .
Huang Rui moved to Japan in 1984 until 2001 where he experimented on many forms of art including performance, installation, photography and abstract expressionist paintings in oil as well as ink. His photographic series done in the 1990s in Japan was triggered by the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. Huang Rui’s explains that, “photography is a medium to restore the essence. The transformation of such essence must evolve from a cultural level to a detailed treatment.” Huang Ru’s Japan years allowed him the freedom to experience art as a means of transcendence. His works are done with much precision and thought, within a minimalist exterior there hides mountains of meanings and connotations stemming from ancient Chinese philosophy, literature and spirituality within a contemporary context. He explains, “I was so eager to create a “Tao” beyond the world of photography known for most people.” His works free your mind to touch the spirit that animates them.
Huang Rui is one of China’s most highly regarded artists and one of the pivotal protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups to emerge from China in 1979. The Stars (Xing Xing 星星) Art Group, established in the late 70s following the end of the Cultural Revolution, used art to promote social ideologies and initiated some of the first free art expressions in the Post-Mao era. Huang Rui’s important Space Structure painting series produced in Beijing (1979-1984) took a radical artistic position of abstract form derived from Chinese ideas.
Huang Rui is a painter, sculptor, installation and performance artist, as well as the founder of the 798 Art District in Beijing and the leading member of the 1979 Stars Exhbition. Huang Rui’s works have been shown extensively in China and internationally, his “Yin and Yang Ink Book” series was exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” in New York. His works have been exhibited and/or collected by The Guggenheim Museum, USA, The Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, The Samsung Museum, Korea, The Louisiana Museum, Denmark, M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong, The Fukuoka Museum, Japan, among many others.
ABOUT 10 CHANCERY LANE GALLERY
10 Chancery Lane Gallery opened in 2001 and is committed to playing a major role in documenting the development of artwithin the Asia Pacific region by consistently holding survey exhibitions by country or theme of emerging, mid-career and established artists, talks, forums and publishing books that bring together the individual historical context of the artists with the development of the arts within Asia. The gallery focuses on the Asia- Pacific. The gallery represents artists Dinh Q. Lê, Huang Rui, Wang Keping, Atul Dodiya, Shi Guorui, Xiao Lu, among others.
Katie de Tilly is President Emeritus and one of the founders of the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association and is the 2019 recipient of the Women of Influence in Art and Culture awarded by the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
Huang Rui will be in attendance at Art Basel Miami.