22 AWNY Gallery Shows Asia Week New York 2018


Tis year’s Asia Week New York runs from 15 to 24 March, with the Open House Weekend on 17 and 18 March. Tibetan bronzes and hanging scrolls, Japanese woodblock prints and contemporary ceramics, Chinese porcelains, Indian miniature paintings and more abound in this year’s shows. For further information on individual opening receptions, viewing hours, and supplemental lectures and events, please refer to asiaweekny.com. A selection of the many and varied gallery shows on offer is below.


Alexandra Bregman CHINESE


FREEDOM OF BRUSH Chinese Export Blue


and White Porcelains Bardith, 15 to 24 March


New to Asia Week, this company specialises in European as well as Chinese porcelains and ceramics. On view are Chinese porcelains from the Kangxi period (1662-1722) until the later part of the Qing dynasty (1644- 1912), including a vast array of blue and white wares. Te brilliant colours are unmarked by time, and can be particularly seen in a Kangxi-period lobed bowl featuring landscapes and florals on alternating panels. • Bardith Ltd, 139 East 79th Street, New York 10075, tel 212 737 3775, admin@bardith.com, bardith.com


A MERGER OF CULTURES - BUDDHIST ART OF THE YUAN AND MING ERAS


Dr Robert R Bigler Asian and Egyptian Art, 16 to 25 March


Dr Bigler has chosen 30 Buddhist works to showcase, with a wide selection of sculptures, textiles, and other ritual items, specifically ranging from the Tibeto-Chinese aesthetic of the Yuan (1271-1368) and early Ming (1368 to circa 1450) dynasties. Te 14th-century stupa on offer may have been used as a reliquary container, and presents as a votive object in commemoration of the life of the Buddha. Ropes of pearls adorn the


Pair of blue and white Chinese ginger jars, Qing dynasty, mid-19th century, Bardith


American flag. Te bowl is painted in famille-rose enamel, which arose to adapt to the changing tastes of the European market.


An irregularly shaped boxwood (huangyangmu) display stand, Chinese, Qing dynasty, 18th century, width 34 cm, Nicholas Grindley


Another


fascinating object is a famille-rose figure of a European woman dating to 1740, dressed in attire of the Frankfurt Jewish


community.


Pair of figural candlesticks, Kangxi period, circa 1700, made for the European market, height 29.3 cm, Cohen & Cohen


stupa, showing a reverence for the deity that can also be seen as an indication of the political stature of the owner. In terms of the aesthetic, Dr Bigler suggests these features are the ‘missing link’ between the Yuan and Ming dynasties. • Robert Bigler at Dickinson Roundell, 19 East 66th Street, New York 10065, tel 212 772 8083, robert.bigler@cwmail.ch, bigler-finearts.com


WORKS OF ART RM Chait Galleries, 15 to 24 March


SPRING EXHIBITION OF CHINESE PORCELAIN AND


Tis well-established gallery has been in New York for generations and this year is offering a selection of imperial porcelain, jade, and Han pottery. An iron red and gilt porcelain from the Kangxi period (1662-1772) is exhibited beside an imperial Chinese birthday dish from the same era, which features a red rim. Te so- called ‘birthday dish’ was so named as it is believed to have been used to celebrate and commemorate a birthday, or rarely but occasionally created to honour a long life. • Ralph M Chait Galleries, 16 East 52nd Street, 10/F, NYC, NY 10022, tel 212 397 2818, steven@rmchaitgal.net, rmchait.com


ORIENTAL ART Cohen & Cohen, 15 to 24 March


CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN AND


Stupa, mercury gilt copper alloy, China, Tibeto-Chinese style, Yuan period, 14th century, height 16.7 cm, Dr Robert R Bigler


ASIAN ART MARCH 2018


In their first year at Asia Week, Cohen & Cohen present a wide array of art from 18th-century China, aimed at Western collectors. A highlight is an 18th-century punchbowl from the Qianlong period, dated circa 1788-90, featuring flags from European countries such as Denmark, the Spanish Philippines, France,


Sweden, Britain, Te Netherlands, and, most rarely, the


Although the features of the porcelain face do maintain their Asiatic elements, the attention to detail in the outfit, complete with the wave of the robe, is animated and vibrant. More and more, it seems that there is growing interest in East-meets-West mentalities even in the distant past, as the market responds to its fusion in present day. • Cohen & Cohen at Carlton Hobbs, 60 East 93rd Street, New York 10128, tel 917 365 1145 cohenandcohen@aol.com, cohenandcohen.co.uk


COLLECTING CHINESE ART: BRONZE AND CHINESE IMPERIAL


MASTERPIECES Gisèle Croës, 15 to 24 March


While always renowned for truly exceptional large-scale pieces from the ancient world, Gisèle Croës looks at the history not just of the collection, but of the collectors. Although it is unsurprising that China has always had a reverence for the past, Croës explains that the fascination for collecting art in China dates back to at least the Tang dynasty (618-907). As such, she focuses on a collection of what would have been antiquities even during that period, dating to the Late Longshan culture (30th-20th century BC). Other works of art on offer include Buddhist statuaries, and items into the imperial world of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and the Yongzheng period (1722-1735). A highlight is the trove of bronze ritual items with fine green patina, as well as weaponry from the Shang dynasty (1600-1050 BC, including a bronze and jade axe. Another highlight is the


bronze rider and unicorn from the Western Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 25) – the figures are almost whimsical in their rounded detailing and mythical qualities. • Gisèle Croës, exhibiting at Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue, 4/F, New York 10075, tel 212 744 2313, art@giselecroes.com, giselecroes.com


CHINESE SCHOLAR OBJECTS AND


DEPICTIONS Nicholas Grindley, 15 to 23 March


On show are 18th- and 19th-century Chinese scholars' objects, including a bronze figure depicted as a scholar, an engraved wrist


rest, and a display


stand so elegantly carved that it immediately catches the eye. Te latter object bears reference to scholar rocks, as its richly formed lines mimic the shapes of natural world. While scholar objects are often more closely associated with paraphernalia of ink and reflection, these items share new sides of the Chinese literati in resplendent detail. Te bronze figure has traces of gold lacquer, while the wrist rest is inlaid with camel bone roundels, and is engraved with a poem shared by the gallery as, ‘Red clouds, misty flames, floating frozen waves: Jade waters, jasper towers – drowning in distant fragrance’. • Nicholas Grindley at Hazlitt, 17 East 76th Street, New York 10021, tel 212 772 1950, nick@nicholasgrindley.com, nicholasgrindley.com


WORKS OF ART Michael Hughes 13 to 24 March


CHINESE AND KOREAN


Michael Hughes has selected a censer, a brush pot, and a nephrite jade of a standing caparisoned elephant to point out the highlights of his show. Each object is exceptional in its own form, particularly the bamboo brush pot, which has fine detailed carvings depicting sericulture, or the art of growing and making that evocatively Chinese material - silk. • Michael C Hughes at Gallery Vallois America, 27 East 67th Street, 2/F, New York 10065, tel 212 933 4124, michael@michaelchughesllc.com, michaelchughesllc.com


Bronze drum stand with three coiled dragons, Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), bronze with green and brown patina, 36,5 x 53 cm, Gisèle Croës. Photo: Studio Roger Asselberghs – Frédéric Dehaen


AND WORKS OF ART Andrew Kahane, 17 to 20 March


CHINESE CERAMICS


Kahane has chosen to highlight a Chinese 13th/14th-century Longquan celadon vase from the Yuan dynasty. Its baluster form has an elegant curvature, open at the lip, and featuring raised florals across the item.


Tis shade of celadon is a cooler, paler blue tone than some of the ruddier greens often seen among the glazes of this period. • Andrew Kahane, at Te Mark Hotel,Suite 1207, Madison Avenue and 77th Street, New York 10075, tel 212 861 5001, kahaneasia@aol.com, artasianappraisers.com


CONTEMPORARY ASIAN ART


EXHIBITION KAI Gallery, 15 to 24 March


KAI, formerly FitzGerald Fine Art, is showcasing a selection of contemporary paintings by the Chinese artist Min Yiming (b 1957). Te oil on canvas works vary in colour palette,


ranging from yellow and


black hues to cooler whites and vibrant pinks, but recurrent themes of cloudy abstraction marked by sharp perforations persist throughout the works. • Kai Gallery, 78 Grand Street, New York 10013, tel 212 966 3629, justin@kaigallery.com, kaigallery.com


PARALLEL LIVES Kaikodo15 to 23 March


Kaikodo’s exhibition continues the gallery’s fascination with cross- culturalism, and this year it is again comparing and contrasting art from around East Asia. In a myriad of parallel similarities and differences, the showcase begins with the juxtaposition of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) in China and the Muromachi period in Japan (1338- 1573), each has a shared a historical reference to the aesthetics of Neolithic China. Japan,


similarities,


Under-glazes from China, and Vietnam also draw although


Kaikodo


highlights their differences. Te showcase also features works from Korea. Kaikodo has in the past shown Chinese art made for the Japanese market, which is often typified by a more carefree and earthy style in these Chinese works. However, on offer this year is a dish that is the exact opposite: it is meticulously crafted, but with a Japanese subject matter.


Kyoyaki fan shaped dish, Japan, Edo period, 18th century,38.4 x 23.5 x 4 cm, Kaikodo


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