Alisan Fine Arts
Co-founded in 1980s by Alice King, Alisan Fine Arts is one of the first professionally run galleries in Hong Kong, and has been a pioneer in the field of Contemporary Chinese Art. The gallery focuses on promoting Chinese diaspora, established and emerging Chinese artists. Under the leadership of Alice King and Daphne King Yao, the gallery currently manages three premises in Hong Kong, with two spaces in Hong Kong and one in New York.
Phone (Hong Kong): +852 25261091
Phone (New York): +1 (646) 360-3439
Email (Hong Kong): assistant@alisan.com.hk
Email (New York): info@alisan.nyc
Website www.alisan.com.hk
Alisan Central
Alisan Fine Arts is excited to present an exhibition of Wang Mengsha, an artist who gracefully navigates through the realms of traditional and contemporary art, where the ancient ‘xieyi’ style of painting is reborn through her innovative approach. She harmoniously blends aspects of traditional paintings of daily objects, court maidens and natural elements, all while employing a sense of humour and a vibrant palette that reminds viewers of the natural sceneries in the south-eastern part of China.
Wang’s paintings, often imbued with bold and striking colours, offers a visual feast that is both aesthetically pure and symbolically profound. Her use of a scatter-point perspective, a method from traditional Chinese painting, allows a stream-of-consciousness narrative to unfold across her works, providing a non-linear, fluid exploration of thoughts and emotions, as opposed to the logical and rigid perspective stressed by Western aesthetics. Exaggerating on this traditional method, as in her work, A Glimmer of Distant Fragrance, Wang creates a lying-on-one-side maiden, outsized butterflies or still objects, in order to invite us to step into a world where childhood dreams are not forgotten whispers but vivid realities that dance jovially on her creations.
Alisan Aberdeen
Alisan Fine Arts is pleased to announce the new exhibition Hung Keung: Digital Media Art Installation at our Aberdeen Gallery. The exhibition officially opens to the public starting from November 4th, marking Alisan’s first solo exhibition for the artist. Hung Keung, a renowned digital media installation artist from Hong Kong and grantee of Asian Cultural Council Award (2005), is known for his interactive installations that combine film, video, and digital new media with themes from Chinese classical philosophy, art, and literature. This exhibition showcases Hung’s latest works from three of his iconic creation, including two groups with flowers and Chinese characters as the main themes – the multi-channel video “Four Seasons: Extended Time Series” and the vibrant digital moving images “Grain Rain Series”. The imagery depicts mist, flowers, charcoal, and rice paper transitioning from vibrancy to decay through ink variations. The dancing Chinese characters respond to these subtle changes, suggesting the relationship between the nature and the passage of time. V.1 of “Four Seasons” has been collected by Hong Kong Museum of Art.
Alisan New York
Alisan Fine Arts, a stalwart of the Hong Kong art scene since its establishment in 1981, is proud to announce the opening of a new gallery location in New York City’s Upper East Side on November 30th, 2023. Known for its dedication to Chinese diaspora artists and contemporary Chinese ink art, Alisan Fine Arts continues its legacy of bridging East and West with this exciting expansion. The inaugural exhibition in New York coincides with Walasse Ting’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle, which opens on November 10, 2023 at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. The museum exhibition, featuring an extensive collection of Ting’s works, serves to reintroduce audiences to the artist’s captivating universe and underscores his role as one of the most unconventional and independent figures of his era. It bridges the gap between ancient Chinese aesthetics, European avant-garde movements, and American Pop Art.
Alisan Central
21/F Lyndhurst Tower
Lyndhurst Terrace
Central
Hong Kong
Mon-Sat 10:00-18:00; Closed Sun & public holidays
Alisan Aberdeen
2305 Hing Wai Centre
7 Tin Wan Praya Road
Aberdeen
Hong Kong
Sat 10:00-18:00; otherwise by appointment only
Alisan New York
120 East 65th Street
New York
NY 10065
Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00; Sat by appointment only