Asian Artists

Joung Young-Ju (b. 1970) 

Chen Yanning (b. 1945)

Character and Landscape

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Rooms

The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013

Love Forever, 1994 

Soul under the Moon, 2002

Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity, 2009

A Sculpture that Fuses Western Gods and Heroes with Buddhist Iconography by Xu Zhen  

European Thousand-Armed Classical Sculpture (2013–2014) by Xu Zhen fuses Western gods and heroes with Buddhist iconography. Nineteen statues in a variety of poses are lined up so that, viewed from the front, they resemble a “thousand-armed”Guanyin, a Buddhist symbol of compassion. The sculptures are radically simplified, all-white versions of 11 originals, including Athena Parthenos, Zeus, Hercules, Odysseus, the crucified Christ and the Statue of Liberty—chosen on the basis of their arm positions, copied in mirror image, and rescaled to the same 3-metre height.

Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew

Each piece from Thai artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew starts from a canvas backdrop that is set inside a deep casement, and that is then lightly veiled by multiple layers of thread and netting. The artist paints not only on the canvas but also on the thread and netting in order to create shimmering portraits and figurative scenes. He creates a depth of field that goes beyond three-dimensional space; rather, his work captures a time-space dimension in a way that has few parallels in the history of art. Yet, to put it that way is still an understatement, for Nimmalaikaew’s genius lies in the way he imagines, and is able to execute with astonishing virtuosity, what might be called a ‘meta-dimension’ that fuses time, space and spirit.