Pro Art Gallery To Open ‘Asian Art’ Exhibition

Dubai, UAE, February 6, 2014: Pro Art Gallery, the gallery that celebrates innovative art and collectibles, announced that they are holding the ‘Asian Art’ exhibition, a dynamic and exciting exhibition that will showcase artworks of over six international artists featuring around 60 works in various media, paintings, photographs and sculptures. The exhibition will have a special opening night on February 6th, 2014 at 7:30 pm and will run till February 28th 2014 at Palm Strip Shopping Mall on Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah1.
Speaking about the exhibition, Tatiana Faure, Director, Pro Art Gallery said, “Over the past few years, Asian Art has become one of the most prestigious and talked about art in the international art world. We are happy and excited to host the Asian Art exhibition at our gallery, where visitors will get to see and buy some exceptional art works by leading Asian artists. We hope to see art lovers, collectors and connoisseurs at this exhibition, who would definitely appreciate the outstanding Asian art works on display.”
Biographies:
Yue Minjun:
Born in 1962 in Heilongjiang province in the cold northeast of China, he graduated from the oil painting department of Hebei Normal University.
Paintings by Yue Minjun are easy to recognize. The artist's landmarks are depictions of men in strong pink flesh tones with always the same grinning faces, over-dimensioned teeth and a kind of expression. In the art scene this figure has become well know as the Silly Man. Yue Minjun uses his own face and body as a model.
First his brother takes photos of him in certain poses that the artist later uses instead of real models.Yue Minjun paints for around one to two months on one painting. Many of the new Chinese top artists now use helpers in their studio.
Takashi Murakami
Born 1 February 1962 in Tokyo, is a prolific contemporary Japanese artist who works in both fine arts media, such as painting, as well as digital and commercial media. He attempts to blur the boundaries between high and low art. He appropriates popular themes from mass media and pop culture and then turns them into thirty-foot sculptures, “Superflat” paintings, or marketable commercial goods such as figurines or phone caddies.
Zhang Xiao Gang:
Zhang Xiaogang trained as an oil painter at the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1982. He joined a group of young avant-garde artists who came to international prominence during the 1980s.Since 1993 Zhang Xiaogang has been working on the Big Family series - works inspired by old family photos.

Zhang creates a sense of nostalgia in his compositions by utilising the conventions of the traditional Chinese photographer. Like his photographic predecessors, he uses dramatic lighting effects and flat anonymous backgrounds to idealise his subjects. In this work, the figures are painted with a smooth pearly finish reminiscent of porcelain.
Yayoi Kusama:
Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama briefly studied painting in Kyoto before moving to New York City in the late 1950s. Since her first solo show in her native Japan in 1952, the artist’s work has been featured widely in both solo and group presentations.
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most exciting and prolific artists working today She started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten ,and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils.
Her work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century, pop art and minimalism. Her extraordinary and highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes.

About Pro-Art:
Founded in 2010, Pro Art gallery is the brainchild of art collector Mrs. Tatiana Faure and is one of the first places in the Middle East where collectors can acquire artworks such as masters, lithographic prints and serigraphs of over 100 artists from 15 different countries. Pro Art Gallery offers an impressive collection of fine arts, selection of styles and mediums from one-of-a-kind paintings to affordable limited edition prints, sculptures to photography. Our variety of portfolio gives collectors access to a range of artists with the highest level of quality, integrity and taste within their chosen field. From acclaimed street art, to renowned masters or the showcasing of upcoming artist, Pro Art is your one source for Art.
Showcased artists include works by Carlos Nadal, Pablo Picasso, Fernando Botero, Damien Hirst, Marc Chagall, Tyeb Mehta, S.H. Raza, Banksy, Andy Warhol, Alberto Giacometti, Bernard Buffet, and many more.
Additionally, Pro Art Gallery has an in-house framing setup supported by certified framers and framing advisors using the latest technology and imported European frames.
For further details, please visit ProArt gallery located in Palm Strip Shopping Mall, F 21, Jumeirah Beach Road, Opposite Jumeirah Mosque from 10am – 9pm Saturday to Thursday or call +9714 3450900. For further information about ProArt Gallery, please send an email on info@proartuae.com
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