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Pine 1 / Landscape 5
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WESLEY TONGSON (1957-2012)
Pine 1 / Landscape 5
A pair of scrolls, mounted and framed
Ink on board
One scroll measures 97 x 71 cm. (38 x 28 in.)
One scroll measures 97 x 72 cm. (38 x 28 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2003
Provenance:
From the Collection of the Artist’s Estate.
Exhibited:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Ink Explorations: A Wesley Tongson Retrospective, 11-23 November 2014.
Literature:
Ink Explorations: A Wesley Tongson Retrospective, INK.Spiration, Hong Kong, 2014, pls. 21-22.
An artist mostly withdrawn from the world, Wesley Tongson found consolation and joy in the pure act of painting. Throughout his life, the works he created in solitude radiate a palpable sense of energy expressed with boundless creativity, as seen through sweeping ink lines and dots against a solid black background. Tongson experimented with ways to abandon the brush altogether, often producing intensely spiritual works with only his fingers and nails. ‘I believe that artistic creation requires purity, passion, and integrity,’ he once said, ‘without which no good work of art can ever be produced.’
Pine 1 / Landscape 5
A pair of scrolls, mounted and framed
Ink on board
One scroll measures 97 x 71 cm. (38 x 28 in.)
One scroll measures 97 x 72 cm. (38 x 28 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2003
Provenance:
From the Collection of the Artist’s Estate.
Exhibited:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Ink Explorations: A Wesley Tongson Retrospective, 11-23 November 2014.
Literature:
Ink Explorations: A Wesley Tongson Retrospective, INK.Spiration, Hong Kong, 2014, pls. 21-22.
An artist mostly withdrawn from the world, Wesley Tongson found consolation and joy in the pure act of painting. Throughout his life, the works he created in solitude radiate a palpable sense of energy expressed with boundless creativity, as seen through sweeping ink lines and dots against a solid black background. Tongson experimented with ways to abandon the brush altogether, often producing intensely spiritual works with only his fingers and nails. ‘I believe that artistic creation requires purity, passion, and integrity,’ he once said, ‘without which no good work of art can ever be produced.’
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