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Lot 825
WESLEY TONGSON (1957-2012)
Uplifting Lightness
Closed26 November 2018
Price Realised
HKD 93,750
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“I believe that artistic creation requires purity, passion, and integrity, without which no good work of art can ever be produced.”
The brightly coloured landscape painting of Wesley Tongson offers an alternative window to look into the artist’s mind. Mostly withdrawn from the world, Tongson found joy, freedom and consolation in the pure act of painting. Uplifting Lightness displays Tongson’s various brush works and splashed ink technique, manifested in the magnificent and atmospheric colours set against hard, textured rock and mountain surfaces. Tongson’s works have been increasingly known to world in recent years. Major retrospective exhibitions were held at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 2014 and most recently, his first solo exhibition in the US in over two decades titled opened at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, USA in October 2018.
The brightly coloured landscape painting of Wesley Tongson offers an alternative window to look into the artist’s mind. Mostly withdrawn from the world, Tongson found joy, freedom and consolation in the pure act of painting. Uplifting Lightness displays Tongson’s various brush works and splashed ink technique, manifested in the magnificent and atmospheric colours set against hard, textured rock and mountain surfaces. Tongson’s works have been increasingly known to world in recent years. Major retrospective exhibitions were held at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 2014 and most recently, his first solo exhibition in the US in over two decades titled opened at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, USA in October 2018.