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Art with Tea Great Master, Accomplished Pupils Prof. Lee has won more than 154 prizes in major art contests around the globe since 2007, establishing himself as an international-renowned artist. Remarked as a “super avant-garde artist” by world-famous Italian art critique Achille Bonito Oliva, Prof. Lee is the first Asian artist ever invited to hold a solo exhibition of oil painting at Venice Biennale. Inspired and tutored by Prof. Lee, Ma Sing Ling created their first artwork collaboratively in 2011 and soon gained admiarable attention: this work was selected into the 159th Autumn Exhibition organized by the Royal West of England Academy (UK). Since then, many honors came to them, including recognitions from the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (UK); the 2nd Annual International Contemporary Artists Exhibition in Paris (France); Midland Arts Association 35th Annual Spring Juried Art Exhibition (USA), to name just a few. Prof. Lee and Ma Sing Ling presented their first joint exhibition last year in Hong Kong, which caused a sensation among local collectors, entrepreneurs and celebrities. In 2014, their joint exhibition will be held at BELLAVITA in Taiwan, displaying their latest creation. To honor this joint exhibition, GP DEVA will prepare a tea feast, with aged Pu’er tea to treat the visitors. Originated from Yunnan Province of southwesrtern China, Pu’er tea is prized for its ability to naturally age, and develops different aromas and flavors. The premier aged Pu’er is warm in nature with mellow sweet aftertaste; it turns into woodly flavor or herbal scent such as angelica, gingsing, sandalwood, and the like. It’s extremely rare and precious. After the event at BELLAVITA, the Joint Exhibition will move to University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in United States in March. To Bring New Life to the Antique Out of his endeavor to challenge himself and break through, Prof. Lee has been creating with diversified styles and using multiple media. The series displayed in this exhibition, “Great Treasure Gate 2014” and “Color Traverse Time/Treasure of All Time”, are to endow a new life upon the old. “Great Treasure Gate 2014” features the centuries-old antique doorknockers, especially the ones made into the image of lion head. In historical China, these lion-head doorknockers were often embellished in the front gates of rich families and gentry households – as an emblem of high authority, guardianship, and auspiciousness. Although no longer used or produced as a result of urbanization, these antique doorknockers are undoubtedly exquisite works of master craftsmen and valuable collectibles. To perpetuate the life of traditional craftsmanship and to even enhance its beauty and value to a higher level, Lee combines west oil art with oriental craftsmanship and develops the antique-class “Great Treasure Gate 2014” – a very innovative contemporary art style. For the series of “Color Traverse Time/Treasure of All Time”, Prof. Lee revives the antique bronze wares by splashing western oil paints upon the replicas, and thus gives birth to a new type of artwork, artwork with both antiquity and modernity, emanating an unusual air of royal nobility. Each piece of this series, unique in its own way, is inlaid with ten zircons in a perfect hearts and arrows cut – illuminating and glittering. Magnificence, Dazzle, and Amazement – “Grand Finishing Touch“ Composed of three young talented artists –MANIHOO, Singway, and Ling Ling – Ma Sing Ling have quickly risen in the international art arena since their debut in 2011. Their artworks won appreciation from many important art collectors, including Chen Wu-Kang, president of Kelti Group; Kenneth Lo, chairman of Industrial Bank of Taiwan; and Edward Chen, chairman of Jih Sun Group. Challenging the unpredicable dynamics and free flow of oil paints, Ma Sing Ling’s creations demonstrate breathtaking magnificence and grandeur, power and momentum. For the exhibiting series “Grand Finishing Touch”, they add new concepts to the fluid oil paints: Using Zen-poetic landscape as the background, clouds in purple to render a great mind, splashes in red to capture glamour, and golden tone to present royal nobility. |
| Lee Sun-Don Great Treasure Gate 2014 / The Supreme Mixed Media 130×160×5.5cm (100F) |
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Lee Sun-Don Great Treasure Gate 2014 / Great Empire Mixed Media 200×200cm (200F) |
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| Lee Sun-Don Great Treasure Gate 2014 / Purple Energy on Top of Grand Propitiousness Acrylic on canvas 150x150cm(100F) |
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Ma Sing Ling Grand Finishing Touch / Unsurpassed Propitiousness of the Cosmos Mixed Media 290x145cm(200F) |
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