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John Wesley

JOHN WESLEY

John Wesley Paintings: 1960's–2000's DE SARTHE 1 October–12 November 2011 Hong Kong
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The selection of John Wesley’s paintings focuses on works from 1967 to 2002 which depicts an unrelenting and remarkably singular body of work whose subject is no less than the American psyche. While many artists of his generation such as Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselman have used the popular image to explore the cultural landscape, Wesley has employed a comic strip style and a compositional rigor to make deeply personal, often hermetic paintings that strike at the core of our most primal fears, joys, and desires.

John Wesley has exhibited worldwide and had numerous solo museum exhibitions including PS1/MoMA, Fogg Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Portikus, and during the 2009 Venice Biennale at the Fondazione Prada, San Giorgio Maggiore Island, Venice. A large collection of his work is permanently installed at Donald Judd Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. His work is represented in major collections, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; and The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.

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John Wesley is an American Pop artist whose graphic nudes set minimalistic figures in surreal settings across pastel shades of pink, green, and blue. His work has been shown across exhibition sites from MoMA P.S.1. to the windows of the Hermès store on Madison Avenue.

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DE SARTHE is a pioneering platform for boundary-pushing contemporary art from Asia. It has also contained an influential international presence in modern and post-war art since 1977.

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2/F, Block A of Vita Tower,
29 Wong Chuk Hang Road
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Hong Kong 2/F, Block A of Vita Tower,, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road
DE SARTHE contemporary art gallery in Hong Kong
DE SARTHE
2/F, Block A of Vita Tower,, 29 Wong Chuk Hang Road, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
+852 2167 8896
http://www.desarthe.com

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Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 7pm
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