Edouard Malingue Gallery

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Edouard Malingue Gallery is a commercial art gallery based in Hong Kong that was founded in 2010 by French art dealer Edouard Malingue[1] to show emerging and established Contemporary artists.

Background

Edouard Malingue Gallery opened in 2010 with the largest solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso in Hong Kong.[2] The gallery has introduced to Hong Kong works by emerging and established artists from around the world. Notable exhibitions have included the first solo shows in Asia of minimalist Scottish painter Callum Innes, French conceptual artist Laurent Grasso,[3] draughtsman and sculptor Fabien Mérelle and Cuban artist group Los Carpinteros.[4]

Edouard Malingue Gallery was also founded to promote Asian art. In 2011 it held the first solo exhibition of Chinese artist Zhang Huan in Hong Kong. The gallery has also exhibited emerging Asian artists such as Yuan Yuan, Wang Zhibo,[5] Nuri Kuzucan,[6] Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu.[7] The gallery also includes in its roster the rising artists Sun Xun and Lee Kit.

Public Projects

Edouard Malingue Gallery has gained recognition for installing large-scale public sculptures around Hong Kong. Running with the exhibition of Zhang Huan at the gallery, the monumental sculpture Three Heads, Six Arms was placed on public display at 1881 Heritage in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.[8] In 2012, the gallery organised the first public installation of Laurent Grasso's work Anechoic Pavillion on the rooftop of Pier 4, in Central Hong Kong.[9] In May 2013, Fabien Mérelle’s life-size sculpture “Pentateuque”[10] was installed in Statue Square in Central Hong Kong to popular acclaim.[11][12][13]

Special Projects

Edouard Malingue Gallery also invites international curators to collaborate on exhibitions. In July 2013, the gallery presented ‘Meeting Point’[14] a dual solo show with Taiwanese artists Charwei Tsai[15] and Chi-Tsung Wu curated by Taipei-based curator, Jenny Lee. Later in September 2013, the gallery presented “Sneakerotics”,[16] a show curated by Robin Peckham, which centered on the parallel life of the California dream in Hong Kong.

Space

Edouard Malingue Gallery is located in the Central district of Hong Kong. It was especially designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture Asia (Hong Kong)[17] led by internationally renowned architect Rem Koolhaas.

References

  1. Art Info, China's 30 in their 30's, August 2012
  2. CNN Go, Edouard Malingue Gallery debuts with large showing of Picasso in Hong Kong, September 10 2010
  3. ArtAsiaPacific, “Laurent Grasso: Future Archeology”, May 2012
  4. SCMP 48 hrs Magazine, “Art Preview: Los Carpinteros Turn Confusion Into An Art Form”, October 23 2013
  5. Art Info, “Post-80s Chinese Painter Wang Zhibo Heads to The Armory Show, February 11 2013
  6. Art Info, “INTERVIEW: Nuri Kuzucan’s Hong Kong Connection”, April 9, 2013
  7. ArtAsiaPacific, “Meeting Point: Charwei Tsai and Chi-Tsung Wu”, August 2013
  8. WSJ Blog, Hong Kong Art Week: What To See, May 21 2011
  9. ArtAsiaPacific, Future Archeology: Laurent Grasso, 2012
  10. Design Boom, “Pentateuque by Fabien Mérelle”, January 30, 2012”
  11. Art Info, “Fabien Mérelle’s Life-size ‘Pentateuque’ Coming to Statue Square Garden”, April 2013
  12. HK Asia Tatler, “Fabien Mérelle’s ‘Pentateuque’ at Statue Square”, May 21 2013
  13. SCMP, “Arts Preview: Pentateuque”, May 16, 2013
  14. Art Asia Pacific, “Meeting Point”, June 2013
  15. Website
  16. Art Asia Pacific, “Future Economies”, October 23 2013
  17. Arch Daily, Edouard Malingue Gallery/OMA, October 25 2010

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