10 ARTISTS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT ART BASEL

Asia’s biggest and arguably most important art fair opens next month, drawing curators, collectors and critics from around the globe. Oliver Giles brushes up on 10 creative talents to seek out at Art Basel in Hong Kong

1. NICOLAS PARTY XAVIER HUFKENS, BRUSSELS When making his brightly coloured portraits and still-life paintings, Swiss artist Nicolas Party mines art history for inspiration—and it shows. You can see the influence of Botero in his fleshy, round-faced subjects, the impact of Cézanne on his stripped-back still lifes and the mark of David Hockney in his continued use of vivid, fresh-from-the-bottle colours. Like the artists of yore who inspire him, Party seems destined for great things. He’s not yet 40 but has already had a major solo exhibition at the esteemed Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. 2. WANG YIN VITAMIN CREATIVE SPACE, BEIJING While many contemporary Chinese artists have earned international acclaim by making boundary-breaking digital art, Wang Yin has remained faithful to the traditional medium of oil…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2018

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