We wish you a Galloping Year of the Horse!

Hanart celebrates the dynamic energy of the Horse, an earth-bound cousin of the Dragon, with a selection of new works by LU Dadong and HUANG Wenbin, plus selected paintings by CHENG Tsai-Tung, LAM Tung Pang, LIU Dahong, WEI Dong, and Mongolian master painter of the Horse CHIMEDDORJ.

Seal Carving & Calligraphy 

LU Dadong 魯大東

HUANG Wenbin 黃文斌

Painting & Sculpture

CHIMEDDORJ 齊沐德

CHENG Tsai-Tung 鄭在東

LAM Tung Pang 林東鵬

LIU Dahong 劉大鴻

WEI Dong 魏東

Exhibition runs till 2026.2.28

LU Dadong 魯大東 (b. 1973)

Currently a professor at China Academy of Art, LU is known for his versatile calligraphy techniques. He departs from conventional literati styles to explore a wide range of decorative and shamanic practices, especially that of Taoist inspired calligraphy. Through his learned and yet streetwise style, the ancient legacy of Taoist magic writing is given a contemporary twist.

HUANG Wenbin 黃文斌 (b. 1973)

HUANG is a guest professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou Normal University, and Guangxi Arts University. He is recognized as one of the ‘Top 20 Young Calligraphy Artists in Zhejiang.’ Huang refreshes traditional calligraphy through playful manipulation of Chinese word’s pictographic components, to find new relationships between picture and meaning.

Shagdarjav Chimeddorj 齊沐德 (b.1954)

Chimeddorj grew up in a family of cattle breeders. He learned to ride a horse at the age of five and the vastness of the steppe with its horse culture remains his lifelong passion. In 2006, Chimeddorj received the Mongolian State Honorary Prize from the President of Mongolia in recognition of his contribution to national art.

LIU Dahong 劉大鴻 (b. 1962)

Liu first came to prominence in the late 1980s with his humorous versions of ‘history paintings’, in which he contrasts classical anecdotes with contemporary events to explore cultural significance that transcends the context of its time. Liu’s art opens a new pathway to chronicle the modern times and illuminates the historical deep time embedded in our era.

WEI Dong 魏東 (b. 1968)

Early in his career Wei Dong was already known for his intricate technique and complex compositions. In both ink art and oil painting, his signature style is a crowded surface packed with cultural artefacts and erotic bodies. The works reflect the era of revolutionary changes when objects from a former era suddenly become obsolete. A new era brings in a new order. Human desire  follows the times, and erotic seduction seeks new narratives. Wei Dong’s later landscapes return to a classical world in which Nature brings back an order that provides human protagonists classical roles. Here human activities are performed as reenactment of mythic tales and mysteries.

CHENG Tsai-Tung 鄭在東 (b.1953)

Cheng Tsai-Tung is one of a group of Taiwan artists who first made their mark during the late 70s and early 80s, by contemporising literati aesthetics via a unique mode of expressive imagery, a strategy that paralleled the same generation of New Expressionists in Europe. Cheng transforms quotidian life into classical imagery in which he often inserts a version of himself as the loitering intellectual–a personal statement of engagement with his own time as a flaneur.

LAM Tung Pang 林東鵬  (b. 1978)

Traversing between the media of painting, site-specific and multimedia installation, Lam’s playful practice arises from a curious imagination that recombines traditional iconography and vernacular materials. He often engages themes of collective memories and fleeting nostalgia, to reflect on the complexity of Hong Kong’s urban reality. His allegorical landscapes, journeys and sceneries become essential passages that connect time and distance, longings and losses.