6 March – 7 April 2009
Watergate Gallery
211-21 Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, Korea

AND

26 June – 20 July 2009
Chang Art
Jiuxianqiaolu No. 4, 798 Art Zone
Chaoyang District
Beijing, China

www.changart.com

Fortune Cookie Projects in association with Watergate Gallery, Seoul, and Chang Art Gallery, Beijing, is delighted to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Paul Huxley. The exhibition will run from March 6—April 7 2009 at Watergate Gallery, and from June 20—July 20 2009 at Chang Art.

Paul Huxley, a descendent of the revered academy of English painters, culls his ideas from Ancient Greek philosophy—the root of European philosophy. He combines the idea of dualism, which classifies the world into spirit and material, with the idea of monism, which believes that the world is one, into a single work of art with flexible solutions. Paul Huxley reinterprets the Ancient Greek philosophies through the modern aesthetics of European modernism. The moderated color fields are made up of carefully calculated divisions of space in order to represent the conflicting concepts of logic and illogic, woman and man, reason and sensibility, character and image, and so on. He untangles his rather serious and heavy world of philosophy through the bright harmony of rich colors, and both moderated and stabilized fields.

This is Paul Huxley’s first exhibition in Korea and part of a ‘Paul Huxley Asian Tour.’ He will be holding his first solo exhibition in China at Chang Art, which is Watergate Gallery’s partner at District 798 of Beijing. Twenty masterpieces have been carefully selected from the last ten years, ranging from the ‘Anima, Animus Series (1998)’ to the ‘Chinese Letter Series (2008).’

Contemporary art, which deploys various media and techniques, did not emerge overnight, but has developed from every philosophy, humanity, art, and society of humankind since the ancient times. Paul Huxley has been a great influence on the generation of yBA artists who are broadly active around the world. While teaching at the Royal College of Art from 1986 to 1998, Paul Huxley fostered the careers of artists such as Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, and Chris Ofili who later became the members of Young British Artists (yBA), the stars of the world’s contemporary art market. He has served as an advisor to world-class art museums such as the Tate Modern Collection and the Serpentine Gallery, and is currently a member of the authoritative Royal Art Academy and an admired national artist of England.

An authentic European modernist artist who has already held countless exhibitions in premier museums and galleries across Europe, Paul Huxley’s upcoming show in Korea will be a precious opportunity for Asia to interpret the development of contemporary art.

PAUL HUXLEY (b.1938, UK)

2002: Acting President, Royal Academy of Arts.

2000: Elected Treasurer and Trustee, Royal Academy of Arts.

1999: Elected Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Art.

1998: Elected Professor Emeritus, Royal College of Art.

1991: Elected Royal Academician.

1987: Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts.

1986-98: Professor of Painting, Royal College of Art.

1975-82: Trustee of the Tate Gallery.

1965-67: Lived in New York City.

EDUCATION

1956-60: Studied at the Royal Academy Schools.

1953-56: Studied at Harrow School of Art.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008: Lyon & Turnbull, London, UK

2003: Rhodes+Mann, London, UK

2002: Rhodes+Mann, London, UK

2001: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK

2001: Rhodes+Mann, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008:
‘Occupied Space 2008’, PSC Art, London, UK
‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2007:
‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
‘My Penguin’, 39 Gallery, London, UK

2006:
‘Long Studios’, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, UK
‘How to improve the World’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
‘Deck of Cards’, 39 Gallery, London, UK

AWARDS

2000: Artist in Residence, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.

1991: Artist in Residence, Asilah Arts Festival, Morocco.

1989: National Art Collections Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AU
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CA
Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
British Council, UK
British Museum, UK
Camden Borough Council, UK
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Creasey Collection of Contemporary Art, Salisbury, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, PT
Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
Leicestershire Education Authority, UK
Moroccan Government Collection, Asilah, Morocco