Online Exhibition of Lam Tian Xing - ANTHEM OF CALAMUS

Exhibition dates 17 / 07 / 2020 - 19 / 09 / 2020

Illuminati Fine Art proudly presents a solo exhibition of the established contemporary ink artist Lam Tian Xing. Titled Anthem of Calamus, the exhibition showcases more than 30 new works created over the past two years. Lam Tian Xing is famous for his paintings of lotuses, yet for the first time ever, this exhibition will focus on works that take the calamus plant as a central theme. The artist’s focus on this plant, which represents a sign of strength, health and energy, acts as a blessing and support to Hong Kong people in view of the ongoing pandemic. The exhibition runs from 17 July to 19 September 2020.

Interview of Lam Tian Xing

Exhibition Reservation

Artist Biography

Lam Tian Xing was born in 1963, in Fuzhou, China. Work by Lam was selected as one of the winning pieces for the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennale in 1987. He further studied at Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1989.The systematic education of college training laid a solid, broad and diverse foundation for Lam Tian Xing’s creative painting. Around the same time, in the late 1980s, influenced by Western modern art trends, Lam Tian Xing gradually began to explore his own individualised language in art. He deconstructed the elements of Chinese painting and sought the contemporary meaning of traditional landscape painting in the stripped colours and compositions.

However, during the process of experimenting, he retains the use of brush strokes and ink and inherits the soul and essence of Chinese painting. Thus, he opened up a new unique field of vision in which the tradition ink and colour are transformed to become contemporary. The range of this, and his, influence in ink colour painting was wide and extensive.

Lam has held more than 50 solo exhibitions in many major cities around the world, i.e. Beijing, Hong Kong, New York, Berlin, Bremen, Milan, Singapore, Taipei, Seoul and other places.

His works have been selected by the following reputable organisations to be displayed at: Hundred-year Chinese Painting Exhibition, the National Art Exhibition, the Thirty-year Art Exhibition of China's Reform and Opening-up, the Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, the Contemporary Hong Kong Art Biennale, as well as he has participated more than a hundred joint exhibitions around the world.

His works have been collected by the National Art Museum of China, the National Painting Institute, the Guangzhou Art Museum, the Shenzhen Art Museum, the Shenzhen Art Institute, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, the Government House, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in Washington, Hong Kong Cathay Pacific Airways, Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, Four Seasons Hotel Macau, Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong, Shangri-La Hotel, Beijing, United Airlines, Credit Suisse, Hong Kong Bank of China, etc., as well as many other institutions and private collectors worldly.

In addition, there are more than 20 publications of his collective works published.

Lam Tian Xing is currently the chairman of the Hong Kong International Art Exchange Association, member of the Chinese Artists Association, Member of the Founding Committee of the Chinese Painting Institute (Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee), member of the Fujian Provincial Artists Association, specialist of the Li Keran Painting Institute, Committee member of the China Tropical Rainforest Academy of Arts, visiting painter of the Shenzhen Painting Academy, consultant of the 4-D Art Club, committee member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, member of Election Committee of the Chief Executive Election (representative of cultural circles).

Moreover, Lam Tian Xing was twice invited by the Chinese Ministry of Culture to paint the “Morning Songs”(2005) and “The Views of the Victoria Harbour”(2008) with the theme of Hong Kong, to take off with the Shenzhou VI and VII space shuttles respectively, witnessing the national event. It indeed is a pride of Hong Kong.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016

Tian Xing Fantasia, The Link Colour Paintings of Lam Tian Xing, Rong Bao Zhai (Hong Kong) Co.,Ltd.

2015

Lotus - The Ink Colour Paintings of Lam Tian Xing, Ausmeyer & Gerling, Bremen, Germany

Lin Tian Xing Charity Art Exhibition – In Benefit of Food Angel, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong

2014

Tianxing‧Lotus‧Tibet, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute

2013

Lotus‧Tian Xing, Singing Waves Gallery, City University of Hong Kong

2012

The Joyous Lotus - Korea Debut Solo Exhibition of Chinese Ink Master Lam Tian Xing, The K Gallery, Seoul, Korea