2018.12.01 － 2019.02.24
Gallery de sol Grand Opening: Picasso
Located within the luxurious Mandarin Oriental hotel, Gallery de sol positions itself as an academically oriented gallery emphasizing art historical research. Dr. Ya-Ching Chang, who is both a collector and an art historian with many years of museum research experience, serves as director. The gallery primarily presents international artworks; at the same time, bringing outstanding Taiwanese artists to the international stage and organizing scholarly lectures for each exhibition are also important gallery policies.
Gallery de sol is equipped with museum-grade display, lighting, and temperature and humidity control systems; within its compact space, movable track-mounted exhibition walls provide rich variability, creating a multifunctional commercial space capable of showing a wide range of international art. This also demonstrates its respect for artworks and pursuit of perfect presentation.
After long-term planning, the gallery’s inaugural exhibition presents rare original works and prints by international master Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Picasso is one of the foremost figures of modern art; he showed exceptional talent from a young age, producing classical paintings in his teens with tension and detail reminiscent of Renaissance masters. Over an artistic career spanning more than eighty years, he continually experimented with forms and materials, became a founder of Cubism, and profoundly influenced the course of world art history.
This exhibition features outstanding works from different periods and media, including oil paintings and original sketches loaned from international collectors, as well as various print works from Gallery de sol’s collection. Visitors can compare Picasso’s differing approaches across print techniques such as lithography, etching, and linocut. In addition, the exhibition will display the four “White Clown” works referenced by Professors Hsiao Chong-Ray and Louis Chang in the magazine Art Collection + Design; through scholarly publications and the exhibition, audiences are invited to unravel the century-old mystery of Picasso’s “White Clown” works.
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