Guest Curator Phillip George Lendrum Highlights The Works Of Yuan Wang & Kotaro Machiyama
About Phillip George Lendrum
Phillip George Lendrum is the founder of BROUHAHAART Gallery. BOUHAHAART gallery specializing in 3D Virtual exhibitions and curated Virtual galleries, serving a Global community as well as professional galleries, organizations and Artists.
Virtual exhibitions provide an experience that is as close as possible to an actual gallery or museum visit.
Set up in Hong Kong, BROUHAHAART is owned and managed by Mr. Philip George Lendrum. He has over four decades extensive experience in the service and publishing business, and actively administers various social media Art platforms supporting local and emerging Artists here in Hong Kong and around the world.
Originally from London UK, he has lived in Hong Kong for 40 years. As a self-taught artist, he has been experimenting with different disciplines and mediums for the past 15 years. He prefers works that explore the questions of identity and crisis.
Selected Artists
Yuan Wang
Kotaro Machiyama
Yuan Wang. Moneygrubber. Oil on canvas.Yuan Wang's use of bold colour palettes and energetic style displays a frivolity towards the way he wants his audience to look at life.
His ‘Pig’ series draws upon his deep-rooted Chinese heritage, reflecting on popular and classical Chinese beliefs whilst employing his trademark contemporary style, humour and playfulness.
Chinese artists' popular use of repetitiveness of an idea or object in their works has been a long-held debate. Repetition is a common method in art, especially Pop art. Andy Warhol used repeated images in large scale so much that it became a pattern and brand for him, As Wang admits himself “After a few years, I grew tired of this commercial repetition of art”.
Utilizing Asian philosophy whilst working in a Western culture, his later works explore the psychological disorders or maladjustments of human beings, cultural differences, and discrimination especially since Covid-19. His pensive ‘The end of F’ work of art expresses the emotional state of mind many people are feeling in the current global climate.
Kotaro Machiyama
Kotaro Machiyama. Acrylic on canvas.Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. Kotaro Machiyama has mastered the art of creating bold, vibrant and aesthetically pleasing works. His use of Spatial proportions do not possess the spatial orderings as figurative art, but nonetheless his disorganized shapes and objects are arranged as to create an engaging and dynamic effect.
Kotaro’s process of making something less complicated and therefore easier to understand allows the viewer to slow down that process, break down the image deliberately and contemplate time and space.
Machiyama’s use of colour in abstraction invokes a therapeutic and healing mood to the viewer that often can induce physical or mental health. He says “These paintings prompt the viewer to think, and move their consciousness away from the situation of “now”.
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