Fung Ming Chip at Mandarin Oriental
January 25th, 6.30pm
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
500 Brickell Key Drive,
Miami, 33131
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Artist Fung Ming Chip at Mandarin Oriental Miami for Chinese New Year
The 6-week exhibition starts with a special event dinner party and presentation by the artist.

Crimson Gate Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of the work of celebrated Chinese artist Fung Ming Chip at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Brickell Key in Miami. The exhibition will feature a broad selection of the artist’s beautiful contemporary ink-on-paper calligraphy.

Coinciding with the hotel’s annual Chinese New Year celebrations, the exhibition will be open to the public in the main atrium lobby at the Mandarin Oriental for 6 weeks from January 23rd through March 5th. On Wednesday, January 25th from 6:30pm to 7:30pm guests can join Fung Ming Chip for a presentation and discussion of his work and philosophy in the hotel’s lobby followed by dinner with the artist at Café Sambal. It promises to be a remarkable evening of lively conversation and fabulous food as well as a rare opportunity to meet this normally very private artist. The cost for this unique and one-time special event is USD 75 per person and includes a three-course dinner paired with wines, plus tax and gratuity. For reservations and more information on this and other events celebrating Chinese New Year, please call the Mandarin Oriental at (305) 913 8358.

Fung Ming Chip was born in a small village in Guandong province in 1951 and immigrated to the US in 1977. While living in New York City he developed an interest in Western abstract art, the influence of which was to be crucial to the artist’s decidedly modern take on Chinese artistic practice and theory. Despite being entirely self-taught, Fung’s influence on Chinese artistic tradition, and its reciprocal impact on his own life, has been dramatic. In the artist’s own words “By reviving the traditions of seal carving and calligraphy, and successfully reframing them within a contemporary context, my own destiny has been transformed.”

A master of the traditional calligraphy, the artist has developed his own script styles that, while paying tribute to tradition, are striking in their modernism. His work in ink on xuan paper evokes a lightness of motion and a harmonized temporal balance which is echoed in the primitivism of the medium, the deceptive simplicity of the scripts and characters, and the Zen-inspired poetry which permeates much of the work. Fung’s commitment to developing new approaches to one the world’s oldest forms of artistic expression continues to produce a startling range of work that is fresh, exciting, and often iconoclastic while remaining respectful of the traditions informing the work at its most fundamental level. As critic Paul Serfaty puts it, “Fung Ming Chip’s calligraphy opens the heart of Chinese culture to the modern world.”

It is Fung Ming Chip’s awareness of the empathetic relationship between the modern and ancient elements inherent in his work that makes it appealing to a wide array of collectors. His work sits in some of the world’s most significant private collections and in such major public galleries as Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Princeton University Art Museum, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

In addition to being a writer of calligraphy, Fung Ming Chip is also a seal carver, sculptor, poet, and essayist and has created beautiful tableware designs for Hermes. He has also served as artist-in-residence at Cambridge University. He spends his time between Hong Kong, Taiwan, and New York City.

The Mandarin Oriental Miami is located at 500 Brickell Key Drive, Miami.

The exhibition can be viewed daily from January 23rd 2012 through March 5th 2012. All the art work is for sale.

The Special Event Presentation and Dinner with the Artist takes place on Wednesday, January 25th from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. This is a ticketed event. For information and reservations call (305) 913 8358.

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