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Kiaf SEOUL 2023 TRIUMPH GALLERY [Booth 39]
2023.09.01




TRIUMPH GALLERY is pleased to announce that the gallery will participate in Kiaf SEOUL 2023 at Coex Mall (Gangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea) from 6th till 10th September, 2023. The Gallery booth number is B39.


This will be the first time Triumph Gallery has participated in an art fair in Korea after the epidemic. The gallery selected works by seven artists, which include Fang LijunWerner BüttnerGuan YinfuHan YongJi DachunXu Hongxiang, and Zhang Kai. The Gallery hopes Kiaf Seoul 2023 will be an opportunity to meet acquaintanced and new Korean collectors again in Coex. And also trying to promote contemporary art and involve cultural exchanges between countries.



KIAF SEOUL 2023


VIP PREVIEW

06/09    15:00 - 20:00


PUBLIC DAYS

07-09/09   11:00 - 19:30
10/09   11:00 - 17:00



Artists
Fang Lijun
Fang Lijun (b. 1963, Handan, Hebei) graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts,  Printmaking Department  in 1989. In July of the same year, he resided in the Yuanmingyuan area, becoming a key advocate of the "Yuanmingyuan Artists' Village." In 1993, he established the Songzhuang studio, contributing to the formation of the  "Songzhuang Artists' Village." In 2014, he founded the "Archive of Contemporary Art of China," systematically organizing the development of Chinese contemporary art. Since 2004, Fang Lijun has been appointed as a guest professor and graduate mentor at more than twenty institutions, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan University, and Hubei Academy of Fine Arts.

Fang Lijun’s solo exhibitions have been held in major art institutions worldwide,  including the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Ludwig Museum,  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Japan Foundation, Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Musée Ariana, et cetera. Domestic retrospectives have been mounted at the Shanghai Art Museum, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Macau Museum of Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, United Art  Museum, Minsheng Art Museum, and He Art Museum, among other significant venues. Additionally, he has been consistently invited by mainstream international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and Shanghai Biennale.

Fang's works are permanently collected by  international museums, in particular the Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Queensland Art Gallery, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. Within China, his works are held by the National Art Museum of China, Contemporary Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Guangdong Museum of Art.

Furthermore, through his artistic career, Fang Lijun has published over 50 monographs, including Fang Lijun: Chronological Notes, Fang Lijun: Works Catalogue, Fang Lijun: Cliff in the Clouds, Fang Lijun: Forbidden Zone, Fang Lijun Prints, and Surviving Like a Stray Dog.  In 1993, his work Series Two No. 2 appeared on the cover of The New York Times.
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Artists
Werner Büttner
Werner Büttner (b.1954, Jena, Germany). Studied Law at Berlin Free University in 1973. Moves to Hamburg in 1977. Works with Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen from 1977 to 1985, was a professor at the Oil Painting Department of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1989 to 2021. The artist lives and works in Geesthacht, Germany.

Werner Büttner's recent solo exhibitions include: Malerei 1981-2022  (Galerie Max Hetzler, Germany, 2023), Werner Büttner (Galerie Max Hetzler, Germany, 2022), Last Lecture Show (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, 2021; Currently traveling to The Ranch, New York, USA, 2022), No Scene from My Studio (Simon Lee Gallery, UK, 2021), Undichte Schlüssellöcher (CFA Gallery, Germany, 2020), Bilder 1979-2019 (CFA Gallery, Germany, 2020). Recent group exhibitions include: Back then has always been now. Painting since 1947 reconsidered (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, 2021), Works on paper 5 (Max Weber Six Friedric, Germany, 2021), Der Goldene Reiter in Faustrecht der Freiheit aka Fox and His Friends (Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2020), Works on paper 5 (Max Weber Six Friedric, Germany, 2020), Works from the 1980s / Conceptual Photography (Marlborough Gallery, USA,2020).

In addition, Butner's works are collected by many important institutions and foundations. Such as the Guggenheim Museum, USA;  Cincinnati Art Museum, USA; FRAC, France; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; Mumok-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Austria; Harvard Art Museum, USA; Pinakothek der Moderne, Germany.
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Artists
Guan Yinfu
Guan Yinfu, born in 1975 in Heilongjiang Province, China, graduated from the Department of Theatre Arts at the Central Academy of Drama in 2002. He currently lives and works in Beijing.Throughout his career, Guan Yinfu has continuously explored the multi-dimensional material properties of pigments. The sensory qualities carried by the pigments are fully manifested as he constructs spatial order through establishing color relationships. Simultaneously, the interaction of gravity and tension on the substrate results in either thin or thick patches of color. A soothing, sluggish rhythm forms a unique "aesthetics of inertia" on his canvases. This aesthetic transforms the paintings into corporeal entities. Different thicknesses of color patches resemble skin and muscle, corresponding to the two threads of lightness and heaviness in Guan Yinfu's creations. His recent explorations in "The Ontological Turn" subtly echo the forefront of "New Materialism" trends. He also endeavors to penetrate beyond the surface of painting, delving into the depths of the spiritual realm. These varied forms of color blocks step onto the stage of spiritual drama.
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Artists
Han Yong
Han Yong was born in 1978 in Yanbian, Jilin, China. He graduated from the Fine Arts Department of Yanbian University in 2000 with a bachelor's degree. He graduated from the Fourth studio of the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008 with a master's degree. Han Yong currently lives and works in Beijing.

For Han Yong, such innocent and effortless painterly expression is perhaps hisresistance to our time and his persistence towards the fond memories and imagination deep-down.  This quality has always been there since the dawn of Han Yong's career.  Han Yong's paintings has something that parallels temporal categories such as "fashion," "trend," or "movement," or they rather exist as a poetic entity that doesn't govern by temporality.  Han Yong's paintings are the maximum expression of his sensibility and even, his nature under the control of reason.  Narratives are laid bare in the compositions with ease, lacking any "useless" tracks.  He is always to leap out of our mundane timeline a few times, maybe just a few, but they are all encapsulated in his pictures.tracks.  He is always to leap out of our mundane timeline a few times, maybe just a few, but they are all encapsulated in his pictures.
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Artists
Ji Dachun
Ji Dachun was born in 1968 in Nantong, Jiangsu, China. He graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Oil Painting Department, Beijing, China in 1993. As one of the most representative Chinese contemporary artists, Ji Dachun is widely noticed for his distinctive personal style. His paintings are witty, humorous, ethereal and tranquil, and full of romantic poetry and Zen. In particular, his choice and persistence in easel painting, in an environment where installations, images, pictures, and multimedia methods are becoming more popular, it highlights its unique expressive charm and profound significance.

After having produced many of his now-widely recognized figurative paintings from his early career, Ji Dachun (b. 1968) begins to gravitate towards acrylic, a medium that is comparatively lighter and less saturated than oil paint.  Initially he was obsessed with the viscous pictorial effect of acrylic, and later on there were his serial explorations of the themes of “Black” and “White”. Throughout this entire process, he has experimented with Payne’s gray—which he considered an unstable pigment color—in terms of how it presents different shades of transparencies, textures, and tonal layers on the canvas.  He experimented so as to grasp the relationship between the subject of paint, the residue, and the image.  Through this project, Ji Dachun endeavors to grasp his own position within the coordination of (art) history and reality and comes up with his own rationales to experiment with—or deconstruct—paint in a perhaps attempt to approximate the boundaries of finite things.

Ji has held solo exhibitions at LudwigMuseum (Koblenz,Germany), MACRO Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome, Italy), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China), Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland), Posco Museum (Seoul, South Korea) and other art institutions. His works have been exhibited in the 56th Venice Biennial, 2012 Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition, The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, 2001 Chengdu Biennale, 2000 Shanghai Biennale, the 1st China Oil Painting Biennale and the 2nd 2ed Annual China Oil Painting Exhibition.
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Artists
Xu Hongxiang
Xu Hongxiang was born  in 1984 in Changsha, Hunan, China. He graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 with a bachelor´s degree, graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 with a master's degree, and now lives and works in Beijing.

Xu Hongxiang’s artistic practice often revolves around painting. Project-based painting series with narrative contents and oil paintings centered on landscapes are the two parallel creative approaches that punctuate his career. "Image",  "body", and "the relationship between painting and reality" are the overarching themes he has been trying to explore in his multi-media painting projects throughout the years. The traits of his highly stylized painting, which included a signature saturated palette, are the fragments that reflect such themes.

Xu Hongxiang’s  selected  solo  exhibitions  and  projects  includes: "Xu Hongxiang: Wander"  (Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2024), "Xu Hongxiang: Ancient Posts"  (Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, 2023), "Xu Hongxiang: Displaced  Images"  (Triumph  Gallery, Beijing, 2022), "Xu  Hongxiang: An  Exuberant View" (Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, 2021), "Xu Hongxiang: One Night While Hunting for Faeries" (Loft8  Galerie,  Vienna,  2019), "Not Dark Yet - Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (Triumph Gallery, Beijing, 2018), "Shuffling the Cards" (Parallel Vienna, Vienna, 2018),  "Li Qiang" (Changsha,  2016), "In the Field"  (Changsha,  2016),  "Xu Hongxiang Solo Exhibition" (SZ Art Center, Beijing, 2014). Selected group exhibitions includes:   "Follow the Rabbit - Talking stock of a collection and its reception through contemporary Chinese art"  (Museum Liaunig, Austria, 2023),  "History and Reality: Contemporary Art of China"  (Bulgarian National Museum of Art, Sofia, 2018),  "Visual Questions" (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, 2017), "Oriental Story" (National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2017),"Centripetal Force" (SCA Galleries, Sydney, 2017), "In Silence - China Contemporary Art" (Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, 2014).
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Artists
Zhang Kai
Zhang Kai was born  in 1985 in Shanxi, China. He graduated from the School of Arts, Shanxi Normal University, currently works and lives in Beijing. 

In his painting, the protagonists are personified and spiritualized cats and rabbits, which present the tranquil, mysterious and poetic atmosphere. Through the synthesis and reconstruction of the classical and the contemporary, Zhang Kai presents his thinking on time, spirit, appearance and essence, starting from his analysis of art history from the contemporary perspective, and his own aesthetic tendencies.
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