10 Chancery Lane Gallery will be participating at Art Basel HK 2014, featuring works from: Vu Dan Tan, Dinh Q. Le and Atul Dodiya.
About the artists:
Vu Dan Tan (1946-2009 Vietnam), one of the most important artists in the contemporary Vietnamese art scene, died in 2009 after a long fight with cancer. a self-taught artist, born in Hanoi in 1946, together with his wife Natalia Kraevskaia, founded Salon Natasha in the ‘90s, the first private experimental gallery in Hanoi. Vu Dan Tan forged a new vocabulary and vocation for visual artists in Vietnam and broke from the traditional Vietnamese beaux arts tradition creating multi-media cross disciplinary practices. Tan was known for his unique and intriguing artistry of applying recycled and abandoned everyday materials to his works, such as carton boxes. Tan’s work varied in scale and medium, from collages of cigarette packets which he cut and painted, to life size temple and boat installations made from appliance boxes. His work has been widely exhibited and collected in countries such as France, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Finland, Japan, USA, Singapore and Vietnam. For Art Basel 2014, we will present a selection of Vu Dan Tan’s Venuses. Cut out corset armor made of paper, these works have come to symbolize the artist’s works in the last decade of his life. This rare collection comes directly from his wife who will give us the great opportunity to explore the artist’s oeuvres for the first time in Hong Kong. A selection of his other works will also be shown.
Dinh Q. Lê (b. 1958, Vietnam), one of the most internationally acclaimed Vietnamese artists, Dinh Q Lê uses sculpture, video and installation to create powerful statements about the impact of historical events on individual lives. Many of Lê’s works focus on the disturbing physical and psychological effects resulting from the Vietnam–US War (1959–75). Lê shows how these effects still permeate the cultural memory and landscape of Vietnam. History, mythology and popular culture are interwoven by Lê as he blends images from different sources in an affecting process of memorialisation. His works deal with the instability of memory, and questions of accountability that emerge from histories of conflict. Dinh Q Lê was featured in the ‘50th Venice Biennale 2003’, Italy, and has exhibited at the Asia Society, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Smithsonian Institute, Washington; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; MoMA, New York.
Atul Dodiya (b. 1959, India), is a major figure in contemporary Indian art. He draws on politics, art history and folklore for his work, as well as Indian and North American popular culture. His well-known series of paintings on roller shutters, evoking the doors of Mumbai shopfronts, feature Hindu gods, figures from South Asian history and Bollywood stars, as well as masterpieces of European and North American art. Layering imagery referencing past, present and future his works are filled with a myriad of iconography, textures and palettes. For Art Basel HK 2014, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery will exhibit a series of new watercolor works as well as a shutter door piece. Atul Dodiya was recently featured in a solo retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.
-10 Chancery Lane Gallery
Image: © Dinh Q. Le
Courtesy of the artist and 10 Chancery Lane Gallery
