24 Asian Art Guide


ASIAN ART in LONDON 2017


Monk’s Chant. 38 cm x 38 cm, oil on linen.


Anna Paik annapaik.com


I N V O C A T I O N


Exhibition of oil paintings 24th-31st October 2017


Exhibiting at: Han Collection


33 Museum Street - Bloomsbury, London, UK +44 (0)7951 746614 - hancollection.co.uk


Asian Art in London (AAL) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and this autumn’s event runs from 2 to 11 November. Since its inception, Asian Art in London has provided a platform for the exhibition and sales of Asian Art. Forty-one dealers and galleries from the UK and overseas are showcasing a range of works of art from South, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, China, Japan, Korea, the Himalayas and the Islamic world dating from antiquity to the contemporary, along with sales of Asian art at the fine art auction houses. Alongside the selling exhibitions, visitors can attend the plethora of museum exhibitions, lectures, gallery talks, study days and conferences which coincide with Asian Art in London week. Te Late Night Openings start with Kensington Church Street on


4 November, St. James’s on 5 November and Mayfair on 6 November, all from 5-9pm. Not all galleries participate in these late openings, so refer to the AAL booklet or website for individual details. Te AAL directory, includes maps and an events calendar and can be found in members’ galleries, downloaded from their website, or obtained from the Asian Art in London office, tel +44 (0)20 7830 9788, or email info@asianartinlondon.com.


Alongside gallery shows, there are museum exhibitions and events that coincide with Asian Art in London. In London: Asia House: Treasures from the Art Museum, Te Chinese University of Hong Kong; British Library: Comics and Cartoon Art from the Arab World; British Museum: Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia; Brunei Gallery (SOAS): Egyptian Moulids; Horniman Museum: Pani and India Unplugged; Victoria & Albert Museum: Lustrous Surfaces: Lacquer in Asia and Beyond and Contemporary Korean Ceramics. Elsewhere in the UK, Te Ashmolean Museum (Oxford): Imagining the Divine, Collecting the Past: Scholars’ Taste in Chinese Art, and Old Traditions New Visions: Art in India and Pakistan after 1947; Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology (Cambridge) Another India; Manchester Art Gallery: South Asian Design, Waqas Khan, and Risham Syed; Museum of East Asian Art (Bath): Dressed to Impress, Japanese Netsuke;


Oriental Museum


(Durham) Resilience within the Rubble,


Whitworth


reconstructing Nepal, Te (University of


Manchester): Raqib Shaw. Tere are also three book launches:


3 November: Shimmering Zen, at Te London Library; 6 November: Te MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture by Grace Wu Bruce, at Sotheby’s; 6 November: Mystical Realm of Love:


LATE NIGHT OPENING KENSINGTON


CHURCH STREET Saturday 4 November, 5-9 pm Gregg Baker Asian Art, Marchant, Amir Mohtashemi, James Stanford: Contemporary Buddhist Art, Jorge Welsh Works of Art


Gregg Baker’s Out of the Shadows aims to create a show with great atmosphere


Bidri huqqa base, Bidar, Deccan, India, 17th century, height 19.5 cm, Amir Mohtashemi


Binions A-Variations, Shimmering Zen by James Stanford


Crow and persimmon fruit by Sakai Hoitsu, screen, Japan, Gregg Baker


Pahari Paintings from the Eva & Konrad Seitz Collection, at Francesca Galloway’s gallery. Te annual gala party is on Tursday, 9 November, in the newly renovated Joseph E Hotung Gallery at the British Museum. Tickets cost £55 (plus VAT) for this event and must be pre-booked through Asian Art in London, asianartinlondon.com.


with low lighting so visitors can experience the works presented in a way which is closer to the old Japanese interiors where they would have originally been viewed by oil and candle light giving the pieces a very difference appearance and sensitivity. Very different from when presented in the usual modern gallery space (closed 5 November). A highlight of the show is an important screen depicting a crow and persimmon fruit by Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828), which is a new discovery and not seen on the market for some years. Tis year, Marchant have created an exhibition of Kangxi Famille Verte. Tere are 38 pieces in the exhibition with four being imperial


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Pair of sugar casters, China, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722), circa 1720, height 22 cm, Jorge Welsh


Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte large ovoid vases and covers, Kangxi, circa 1700, height 50.8 cm, Marchant


period’ pieces. Emperor Kangxi reigned from 1662-1722, the longest reign in Chinese history. It was a prosperous time for the nation in economics and trade as well as in the arts; it was a great period of production of high quality porcelain with styles and shapes never seen before. Tere were pieces being made for export as well as for the domestic market and of course, the Emperor and court. At Amir Mohtashemi’s gallery, there is an exhibition of his recent acquisitions with an emphasis on Islamic and Indian works of art (by appointment only 5 November). New to Asian Art in London this year is James Stanford from the US, who specialises in contemporary Buddhist art.


His


exhibition, Shimmering Zen (there is a book launch at the London Library on 3 November). can be seen at 99 Kensington Church Street.


An


exhibition of Stanford’s contemporary Buddhist art that features modern


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