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WORLD RENOWNED CHINESE INK PAINTERS EXHIBIT AT ART PALM BEACH, JANUARY 15-19, 2010

Art Palm Beach is Working with Goedhuis Contemporary on an Important Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition and Panel Discussion

PALM BEACH, FL – October 6, 2009 – Today, Art Palm Beach (APB) announced they are working with Goedhuis Contemporary on an important exhibition of New Chinese Ink Painting to take place during the fair, from January 15-19, 2010. Four leading internationally recognized ink painters from China have been commissioned to each present four new works in an exhibition curated by Michael Goedhuis of Goedhuis Contemporary. A panel discussion with the artists titled, “Ink Art” will explore why and how the New Ink Painting is now, not only the most effective aesthetic expression of Chinese contemporary culture, but in what ways it carries meaning for a global audience. The lecture will take place on January 16th at 2:30 p.m.

“The New Ink Painting from China is likely to be the next major wave in the contemporary art-world,” said Michael Goedhuis. “Palm Beach already has a nucleus of visionary collectors who have identified this most dynamic area of contemporary Chinese culture. The works assembled for this exhibition are by the four leading artists in the field.”

The internationally recognized artists chosen to exhibit are Liu Dan, Xu Lei, Wei Ligang and Wang Tiande. These artists cover the full range of styles in this category, varying from the figurative (Liu Dan and Xu Lei), to abstraction (Wei Ligang) as well as modernist calligraphy (Wang Tiande and Wei Ligang). The artists’ biographies are included below:

• Liu Dan born in1953 in Nanjing, China, studied at the Jiangsu Chinese Painting Academy from 1978-81 and currently resides and works in Beijing, China. He has exhibited his work in the following places, Outside In: Chinese X American X Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Return of Trees and Rocks, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, Contemporary Trends in Chinese Ink Painting, The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.
• Xu Lei born in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China in 1963, graduated in 1984 from the Fine Arts Department of Nanjing Arts Institute, China. He currently resides at the China Art Academy, is Art Director of The Today Art Museum, and Editor-in-chief of “Classics”.
• Wei Ligang born in 1964 in Datong City in Shanxi Province graduated from the Mathematics Department at Nankai University in 1981. He is one of China’s most respected young artists of contemporary calligraphy, and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in China and abroad. He was awarded a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council Hong Kong, an affiliate of the Rockefeller Brother’s Fund that brought him to New York on a research trip in 2005. His works can be found in numerous public and private collections, including the British Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
• Wang Tiande born in Shanghai in 1960, is one of the most innovative of the modernist calligraphers in China. He received his BFA from the Chinese Painting Department of Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy (now the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts), Zhejiang Province, China in1988. He is presently the Dean and a Professor at the Art & Design Department of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Exhibitions include: The New Calligraphy, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA, Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A., and Contemporary Chinese Art, Dublin Contemporary Art Museum, Dublin, Ireland.

“Goedhuis Contemporary represents some of the best Chinese contemporary art and artists throughout the world and we are delighted to be showcasing some of their most talented artists in the exhibition ‘New Chinese Ink Painting’ during Art Palm Beach,” said Freya Simms, APB Director.

APB will be the preview site for an ambitious show on Contemporary Chinese “New Ink” Paintings being planned for 2011 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dr. Shen Kuiyi, the curator of the Metropolitan show and the leading scholar in America in the field of Chinese contemporary art, will be at APB on January 16th for the panel discussion. The panel will also include Michelle Yun, formally of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and director of the studio of the artist Cai Guo-qiang, as moderator and Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

For more information on Art Palm Beach, the lecture series, and exhibitor images, please call 239 949.5411 or visit, www.palmbeach.com or www.ifae.com.

About Art Palm Beach
Celebrating its 13th anniversary, Art Palm Beach is a dynamic event in America’s premier winter destination, hosting international galleries presenting contemporary art, photography, video, installation art, public sculpture, and design. The fair offers collectors, museum curators and trustees, art advisors, architects, and designers a week of city-wide art events, educational lecture series, and VIP events. The Preview Party on January 14th benefits the Society for the Four Arts and the Young Collectors of the Norton Museum.

About International Fine Arts Expositions (IFAE)
David and Lee Ann Lester, owners of International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) have been the pioneers of the Florida market, establishing Art Miami in January, 1991, The Palm Beach International Art & Antique Fair (now AIFAF) in 1997, and Artpalmbeach in 1998.

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