Art Bites

 Opera Gallery Hong Kong is thrilled to announce its Autumn exhibition showcasing celebrated Chinese abstract painter Liu Jiu Tong alongside a collection of figurative sculptures by American artist Richard MacDonald. Interplaying the abstract and the figurative, Liu Jiu Tong’s unrestrained landscapes are inspired by renowned Chinese poets of the Warring States and Tang Dynasty. Eluding to form, Liu expresses a lyricism swathed in tenacious layers of paint, vigorously applied and condensed onto canvas like a fleeting moment trapped between open fingers. Born in 1977 in Suide, a province of northern China, Liu graduated from the Art Institute of Xi’an and continued his studies in Beijing. Growing from the highlands of northwest of China with giant mountains and fields makes Liu’s oil painting full of heroic spirit. Inspired further from his later travels, old charming buildings of Shanghai and peaceful villages surrounded by water appear in his artworks - full of melodic passi...

Skobeev Vitaly Skobeev Vitaly was born in 1968 in Kazan in the family of the artist. In 1987 he graduated from the Kazan Art School. After serving in the Army (1990) he continued his studies in the workshop of his father, National Artist of Russia, V.N. Skobeev. He held more than 20 exhibitions from 1991 to 2015, more of them are personal. His works are in the State museums and private collections in Russia. He lives and works in Kazan.                                                           'The creation of a man'   'The creation of a soul' 'Leonardo's planet' 'The Tree of life'