前波画廊
前波画廊(Chambers Fine Art)位于纽约的中心艺术地段切尔西(Chelsea),其“前波”(Chambers)之名取自十八世纪英国著名建筑师威廉.钱伯斯勋爵(Sir William Chambers)。钱伯斯勋爵不仅在建筑设计上颇有建树,同时还是中国园林设计观念在西方的重要阐释和推广者。前波画廊创始人及现任主管人Christophe W. Mao(茅为清)深受钱伯斯勋爵启发,自2000年起,举办了各种内容颖丰富的展览,并将活跃在中国当代艺术舞台上的最优秀的艺术家及作品介绍给美国观众。
前波画廊的展览主要包括两种形式,一种是已经较有名气的艺术家的个人展览,另一种是由著名学者和艺评人策划的主题展览。在一些前波画廊举办的富有创新意义的展览中,也试图着力探索了中国传统艺术形式与当代艺术家实践之间的关系。这些精心策划的展览,及时“报导”了中国的最新发展,常与举办的艺术家个人展览的风格完全不同。在前波画廊展览的艺术家大都在中国已有一定声誉,但对他们中许多人来说,在前波画廊的个人展览却是在美国举行的第一次个展。2007年前波画廊在北京草场地艺术区开设了分馆,其空间由艾未未设计。
前波画廊的大部份展览都配有图录,其中许多都由艺术家亲自设计。
前波画廊明年的展览计划将延续这种著名艺术家与年轻艺术家结合的成功方式。

Introduction
Since 2000, Christophe W. Mao has been committed to the careers of a select group of Chinese contemporary artists. He opened Chambers Fine Art in New York City in hopes of exhibiting and contextualizing this developing genre to Western audiences.
The gallery program alternates between monographic exhibitions devoted to the work of established and emerging artists and thematic exhibitions organized by recognized scholars and critics from China. While some artists fuse traditional Chinese art forms with contemporary practices, other artists present the face of contemporary China using multimedia techniques. This broad scope allows Chambers Fine Art to present a variety of mediums from video installations and large format photography to neo-classical ink painting and traditional paper-cutting.
Some notable exhibitions at Chambers include: Rocks and Art: Nature Found and Made, in which Chinese scholar’s rocks were juxtaposed with works by contemporary artists including Brice Marden, Roy Lichtenstein and Zhan Wang; Too Much Flavor, a survey of young artists including Hong Hao and Shi Jinsong who responded to the sensory overload of modern life; and Chopsticks, a joint exhibition with Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen that reflected the trust and harmony of their work and life.
All of the exhibitions at Chambers Fine Art are accompanied by catalogs designed by the artist themselves with essays written by scholars and critics in the field. The gallery has placed significant works by Hong Hao, Zhan Wang, Cai Guo-Qiang, Hong Lei and Wang Jianwei in major public and private collections. Chambers Fine Art will continue to create provocative and intelligent exhibitions by influential established artists and young emerging talents in China.
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北京市.北京市.北京市朝阳区草场地红一号D座
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