Exhibitions

Miguel Ángel Payano Jr.: Single-Celled Humans

13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Shanghai BANK is pleased to announce that Payano’s first solo show Single-Celled Humans in the VAULT. Payano’s visual arts practice spans his biographical imprints and multicultural heritages that rise to the surface of his “heavy collages” of visual renderings in painting, ready-made objects, image, collage and sculpture. Working between studios in... Read more

Geng Yini: The Dwarf Planet That Has Been Demoted

13 Sep - 19 Oct 2024 Shanghai Curator / Leo Li Chen Pluto was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system, but in 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined the criteria for a “planet,” resulting in Pluto being downgraded to a “dwarf planet.”Geng Yini has titled one of her new works “Dwarf planet that... Read more

Shi Hui: White Meditation

2 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Shanghai It is with great honor that BANK presents its first solo show of the contemporary living legend, Shi Hui. Running concurrent with Shi's presentation at the 2024 Venice Biennale, BANK celebrates Shi's longstanding contributions to the arts of China and the world with a cross-section of her creative output that... Read more

Andrew Chapman: Seeing in Normal Circumstances

2 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Shanghai In Seeing in Normal Circumstances, an initial glance may appear to be the offerings of some type of collective: possibly, a group show of artists pivoting around a rolodex of thematic drivers. What belies this, however, is a particularly solitary and singular practice. One in which the artist’s hand, or... Read more

Bai Yiyi: Comet Drifting Away

23 Mar - 17 May 2024 Shanghai In those humble times, no one’s name will be remembered. Heart fulfilled, photos taken, and can we still murmur any memories? – Kidney 'Where is love?' BANK is honored to present 'Comet Drifting Away', Bai Yiyi's debut solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in Shanghai. In this fleet... Read more

Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend

23 Mar - 16 May 2024 Shanghai BANK is proud to present Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend, the first solo exhibition of this seminal Indigenous Brazilian artist in Asia. This historic show focuses on three of this late, self-taught master’s signature themes— fish, birds, and dragons. Chico da Silva (also known as Francisco da Silva, 1910-1985) was... Read more

BANK 10th Anniversary Show "Birthday Party!"

10 Nov 2023 - 24 Feb 2024 Shanghai BANK was born 10 years ago out of a happy mistake. It started with the discovery of a special space, a whim, and some hutzpah. It is now a global brand. Xianggang Lu No 59 was the address that gave us our name and original vitality. It was the former... Read more

Zheng Haozhong: Indoor Enclosure, Sub-Alto Saxophone, Drum Roll, Saw, Voice Silence Turns into A Major Musical Phrase

28 Sep - 31 Oct 2023 Shanghai BANK is pleased to announce that Zheng Haozhong's new solo exhibition will be held from September 28, 2023, to October 31, 2023. Titled 'Indoor Enclosure, Sub-Alto Saxophone, Drum Roll, Saw, Voice Silence Turns into A Major Musical Phrase,' the exhibition harmonizes music rhythms with brushstrokes, showcasing the diverse facets of... Read more

Liang Hao: Gesture and Speech

5 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Shanghai It is always the same hands, reaching out from the edge of the canvas and opening up at the center of the painting. It is the hands that are in motion, palms up and fingers clenching – stretch, grip, hold, touch, press, cut, chop. The hand appears in sync with... Read more

Behind Gesture and Speech

5 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Shanghai As an extension of the current exhibition 'Liang Hao: Gesture and Speech,' BANK has adorned the guest room with a number of works related to the theme of 'hand,' encompassing various mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, video, and tapestry, to expand the audience's visual experience of the imagery of 'hands.'... Read more

The Threads of Destiny: Maryn Varbanov, Works from the 1970s, with Song Huai-Kuei

10 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 Shanghai 'The Threads of Destiny' presents the remarkable artistic partnership of Maryn Varbanov (1932-1989) and Song Huai-Kuei aka Madame Song (1937-2006), China's legendary couple whose life and work helped to transform the cultural landscape of economic reform-era China. Focusing on Varbanov's columns and installations made with a traditional Bulgarian technique -... Read more

Anastasia Komar: ex-vivo

10 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 Shanghai 'ex vivo' (Latin: 'out of the living') literally means that which takes place outside an organism. In science, 'ex vivo' refers to experimentation done on tissue from an organism in an external environment with minimal alteration of natural conditions.[1] This exhibition presents a series of works by the NYC-based artist... Read more

Wenjue: Supercalifragilisticexpialidociousism and The Horn of Plenty

11 Mar - 13 May 2023 Shanghai Classical mythology, personal fantasy, and collective hallucinations are carefully deconstructed then reshaped in this audacious, debut by artist, Wenjue at BANK's THE VAULT. Wenjue's grand, yet illusory narratives are embodied within the title of the show itself, a delightfully impossible word that conjures all sorts of mystic fantasies and yet... Read more

Hito Steyerl: Mission Accomplished : Belanciege

11 Mar - 13 May 2023 Shanghai For its spring exhibition, BANK proudly presents 'Mission Accomplished: Belanciege', a video installation by Berlin-based artist Hito Steyerl. This is the artist's second solo exhibition at BANK. The exhibition will be on view from 10 March 2023 until 6 May 2023, and will subsequently travel to DANGXIA Art Space in... Read more

Magical Realism Revisited

6 Nov 2022 - 25 Feb 2023 Shanghai Magical Realism is a term largely attributed to a 20th Century literary genre best represented by South American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Borges and Isabel Allende, but in fact it was coined by the German photographer, art historian and critic, Franz Roh in 1925 to describe paintings that blended... Read more

Wang Rui: Silver Grey Death

6 Nov 2022 - 20 Jan 2023 Shanghai BANK is pleased to present Wang Rui’s second solo show at the gallery, “Silver Grey Death”, opening on November 6. The exhibition is titled after the debut novel by writer Yu Dafu. At the time that he wrote the story, he was in his 20’s and depressed. Through writing the... Read more

Alvin Ong: Private Pleasures

20 Aug - 24 Sep 2022 Shanghai BANK is pleased to present 'Private Pleasures', Alvin Ong's debut exhibition in Shanghai. Characterised by fluid compositions and surrealist forms, Ong's dreamy paintings fuse the external world with the internal, continuing his interest in the physicality of the body and explorations of introspection, longing and loneliness. Throughout the surfaces of... Read more

Michael Lin & Heidi Voet : doublespeak

2 Apr - 25 May 2022 Shanghai BANK is proud to present Michael Lin & Heidi Voet: doublespeak opening on 2 April. This presentation celebrates a decade of this artist couples' working in tandem, yet independently, as well as Voet and Lin's continued shared interest in cultural appropriation, semiotics and colorful social engagement. Lin's practice conflates painting... Read more

Busui Ajaw : Mother of the World

2 Apr - 25 May 2022 Shanghai BANK is pleased to present our newly formed project space, THE VAULT where we will incubate smaller format experiments in global visual culture. The new project space is designed in collaboration with MORE Architecture, the designers of BANK’s original gallery space on Anfu Road. We are excite to inaugurate THE... Read more

Sun Yitian: Fly only when the shades of night gather

10 Nov 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Shanghai Sun Yitian takes Hegel's beautiful metaphor of philosophy as inspiration for her much-anticipated second solo exhibition at BANK. The owl has always been a sagacious creature in Western mythology due to its close association with Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom. Hegel claims that (the owl) wisdom takes wing with... Read more

Zhang Yibei: A Vase in Everything

11 Sep - 3 Nov 2021 Shanghai BANK is proud to present 'A Vase in Everything', artist Zhang Yibei's first solo show with the gallery whereby she emphasizes the vault-like nature of our subterranean space through simple interventions and installation works. By exerting rhythmic pressure on the surface of materials until they have been penetrated the artist... Read more

Tang Song Works

15 May - 10 Jul 2021 Shanghai Some argue that all art is rooted in the conditions that produce it; consequently, abstract art may have more facility for harboring social relevance and personal psychology than previously believed. Abstract expressionism was an art of war, emerging during the 1940s when the world was thrashed to shards. Simultaneously anti-Fascist,... Read more

TRI SOLO: LAWRENCE LEK, NIK KOSMAS, TIM CROWLEY

13 Mar - 21 Apr 2021 Shanghai TRI-SOLO： Lawrence Lek AIDOL Nik Kosmas BodyHunter Perspective Expand Tim Crowley Ballerina Moon Address：Building 2, Lane 298 Anfu Road, Shanghai, 200031 Lawrence Lek 'AIDOL' The willow tree shall weep The willow tree shall whine Wish I was in my A.I.'s mind Who stole the heart of mine When I was... Read more

Chen Zhe: A Slow Remembering of A Long Forgetting

13 Nov 2020 - 13 Jan 2021 Shanghai Following her celebrated Towards Evening: Six Chapters three years ago, Chen Zhe returns to BANK with her second solo exhibition, A Slow Remembering of a Long Forgetting. Spanning the artist's original medium of photography as well as many new materials and forms, Chen continues to combine a research-based practice with... Read more

Towards a Neo-Constructivism

25 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Shanghai Constructivism, one of the 20th Century's most important movements, declared an 'UNCOMPROMISING WAR ON ART!' It attempted to break art down into its fundamental parts, challenge the legitimacy of established traditions, and construct an austere form that supported social revolution in post-Tsarist Russia. This exhibition poses the possibility of a... Read more

Geng Yini: Virtual Power

13 May - 13 Jul 2020 Shanghai For her first presentation in Shanghai since her celebrated K11 solo show, Hanging Tower & Perfect Duck, Deep Pond (2017) BANK presents a special project by Geng Yini that explores the timely conundrum of Virtual Power in an increasingly alienated world. In this new body of paintings Geng turns her... Read more

Lu Yang 'Debut' & Chen Tianzhuo' Backstage Boys'

9 Nov 2019 - 12 Jan 2020 Shanghai BANK is excited to present, for the first time ever, a double solo show of two of Chinese contemporary art's most controversial players, Lu Yang and Chen Tianzhuo. This badass artist couple just celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary but have yet to exhibit together, nor have they ever exhibited paintings... Read more

Michael Najjar: outer space

20 Sep - 27 Oct 2019 Shanghai On the 50th anniversary of man's first landing on the moon, BANK is honoured to present Outer Space, Michael Najjar's debut solo exhibition in China. Through immaculate, large-scale photo compositions, 3D simulated videos and insightful texts by some of the most important luminaries in the field, Najjar takes a complex... Read more

Lin Ke: Sky Painting

10 Aug - 10 Sep 2019 Shanghai BANK is delighted to announce artist, Lin Ke's second solo show with the gallery, Sky Painting. This show presents the artist's continued fascination with the ever blurring boundaries between the digitally manufactured, virtual spaces of our computer age and traditional reality. In Sky Painting Lin posits a series of seemingly... Read more

Zheng Haozhong: TAKI

26 May - 29 Jun 2019 Shanghai TAKI is an important figure in the artist's simple social life structure. However, her somewhat unique identity, in a way, blurs her social property. TAKI, Zheng Haozhong's second solo at BANK, follows, Lee Cha in2016. Lee Cha, (the artist's penname) works as a novelist and painter, whereby 'Qiu Chen' and... Read more

EXCHANGE VALUE

29 Apr - 19 May 2019 Shanghai Life flows. From an embryo, To cell division, DNA forms the syntax of life. The body is the fundamental apparatus, Runs by cell metabolism Being consumed in daily wear and tear, Is unable to protect itself From being a vulnerable infrastructure. Sculpture is the Theatre of Life, Its intent is... Read more

Xie Qi: Clavicle

11 Jan - 9 Mar 2019 Shanghai The body is our general medium for having a world. - Maurice Merleau-ponty BANK is pleased to present Xie Qi's Clavicle, marking the artist's first solo show in Shanghai and her first collaboration with BANK. Clavicle presents a series of recent oil paintings by this Beijing-based artist in a signature... Read more

Yanyan Huang Solo Exhibition

6 Nov 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 Shanghai Much like a dance or orchestral performance, Yanyan Huang's painting personifies the whimsical voluptuousness of balletic and operatic forms both in their creation as well as their final compositions. Aiming to create an idealized space of rhythm, nature, and proportion she combines tenets of classical botanical studies, mythology, and the... Read more

TRI-SOLO: SUN YITIAN, WANG RUI, KIM LAUGHTON

15 Sep - 28 Oct 2018 Shanghai TRI-SOLO： SUN YITIAN a twinkle WANG RUI Fuzzeautiful KIM LAUGHTON Parking Address：Building 2, Lane 298 Anfu Road, Shanghai, 200031 BANK is proud to announce the opening of TRI_SOLO, three separate solo exhibitions by three young artists whose works probe the soul of our hyper-consumerist and networked condition in diverse ways.... Read more

The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism

15 Jun - 2 Sep 2018 Shanghai On the occasion of the 16th Venice Biennial of Architecture BANK presents 'The Legacy of Architectonic Futurism' - a group show in honor of the visionary and fantastical spirit of Lebbeus Woods (1940-2012). Woods was an artist, theorist, educator, and architect of the highest level whose politically charged and provocative... Read more

Petra Cortright & Marc Horowitz

22 Mar - 20 May 2018 Shanghai BANK is proud to present Petra Cortright and Marc Horowitz, marking the first time these married, LA-based artists are exhibiting their diverse but congruent creations together, and in Shanghai. Cortright is the poster-girl for ‘post-internet’ art, having come to fame with her lo-fi, webcam videos that, anticipated the rise of... Read more

0:00

27 Jan - 21 Feb 2018 Shanghai “0:00”- is both the beginning and termination of a clock’s cycle. “0:00” is an existing space-time that doesn’t belong to any single day and represents an infinite state of criticality. From evening to midnight, people take off their “normal” mask and return to their inner selves, thus “0:00” can be... Read more

PST/CST

9 Dec 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 Shanghai Los Angeles, a Spanish name that translates as “the angels,” is the largest city in the Pacific Standard Time (PST) zone. It is sixteen hours behind China Standard Time (CST) in the winter and fifteen hours in the summer. Originally part of Mexico until 1850, the city today is home... Read more

Chen Zhe: Flown Away Is the Gold of Days - Works from "Towards Evenings: Six Chapters"

9 Sep - 19 Nov 2017 Shanghai BANK is proud to present Chen Zhe's Flown Away Is the Gold of Days - Works from 'Towards Evenings: Six Chapters', the artist's first show at the gallery. Chen's international notoriety stems from her epic series Bees & The Bearable, which posited photography as a catalyst for examining the psychology... Read more

NOW IS THE SUMMER OF OUR (DIS)CONTENT

14 Jul - 30 Aug 2017 Shanghai Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. —— Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare Summer is the season of infinite possibilities, unbridled play, and paradox. The blazing sun, threatening storms, and sweltering cities have historically been stimuli for sweet serenity as well as for... Read more

Patty Chang: Re-Configurations

13 May - 2 Jul 2017 Shanghai Re-Configurations conflates Chang's latest, research-based, performative-lecture work and its attendant photos and sculptures with a selection of earlier videos which helped make her one of the most influential performance artists of her generation. At the heart of this exhibition is Configurations, a lecture/performance based on the artist's travels along the... Read more

Chen Yujun: THE RIVER NEVER REMEMBERS, THE HOUSE CANNOT FORGET

25 Feb - 16 Apr 2017 Shanghai Chen Yujun (b. 1976, Putian, Fujian Province), graduated from Department of mixed media Art of China Academy of Fine Arts in 1999, taught mixed media and oil painting in Chinese Academy of Fine Arts from 1999 to 2004, and now lives and works in Shanghai. In the past decade, Chen's... Read more

Lin Ke: Like Me

17 Dec 2016 - 20 Feb 2017 Shanghai The exhibition Like Me continues Lin Ke 's long-term interest in the behavioral science of our computer age by turning himself into his own guinea pig. Having converted his laptop into a studio, Lin mines the mundane actions of software operations and Internet surfing as the fodder and form of... Read more

Austin Lee: Light Paintings

8 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 Shanghai In 2016, BANK moved from Hong Kong Road to Anfu Road, and this first solo exhibition 'Light Painting' by Artist Austin Lee marks a new chapter for BANK in this new space. As one of the first artists to explore and adopt digital technology in his practice, Austin Lee uses... Read more

Daily Formalism

18 Mar - 15 Jun 2016 Shanghai Formalism implies an emphasis on an artwork's form over its content. It is often associated with abstraction or minimalism - art that is devoid of language outside itself or pure art. “Daily Formalism” showcases artists practicing in a tenacious yet provocative relationship with the legacy of formalism. Whether cynical, playful,... Read more

Zheng Haozhong: Lee Cha

16 Jan - 12 Mar 2016 Shanghai Who is Lee Cha? Without a doubt, this character “Lee Cha” should be the protagonist of this exhibition. Although storyboard or comic strip-like formal separations often appear in artist Zheng Haozhong’s paintings, they offer no clear or logical narrative. From these linearly divided compositions, we can only intermittently discern certain... Read more

Maryn Varbanov: Relics

20 Nov 2015 - 12 Mar 2016 Shanghai Maryn Varbanov (born 1932, Bulgaria – died 1989, Beijing) was a powerful but often overlooked fixture of the China ’85 New Wave Movement. He actively contributed to the greater Avant-Garde dialogue both as a prolific artist and a beloved teacher, influencing artists such as Gu Wenda, Liang Shaoji, and Shi... Read more

Jin Shan: Divine Ruse

20 Nov 2015 - 16 Jan 2016 Shanghai BANK is honored to present Divine Ruse, Jin Shan’s much-anticipated first solo exhibition at BANK as well as his first solo exhibition in China since 2009. Divine Ruse features a series of new sculptural works constructed out of the artist’s own secret resin concoction. Conflating references as diverse as ancient... Read more

Zhao Gang: Cocksucker Blues

6 Sep - 1 Nov 2015 Shanghai Using the historical BANK building as his inspiration Zhao Gang’s debut in Shanghai forms a ballad to the possible pasts of this city. Like the infamous, unreleased Rolling Stones’ single that this exhibition borrows its title from, Zhao’s paintings moan with a destitute sense of an unfulfilled, dirty romance. While... Read more

Oliver Herring

6 Sep - 1 Nov 2015 Shanghai Oliver Herring’s multi-disciplinary, globe-trotting, performative project Areas for Action makes its Shanghai debut at BANK with an on-going, open archive of new, tailor-made work in tandem with video and photo documentation of past events. Through an open call for volunteers in Shanghai Herring will create a situation for creativity in... Read more

Hito Steyerl

18 Jul - 30 Aug 2015 Shanghai “My conviction is that, now more than ever, real life is much stranger than any fiction one could imagine. So somehow the forms of reporting have to become crazier and stranger, too. Otherwise they are not going to be ‘documentary’enough; they are not going to live up to what’s happening.”... Read more

The Body Poetic

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Geng Yini: God Loves Whatever

30 May - 10 Jul 2015 Shanghai “God loves whatever: be it drunkards, illiterates or the uneducated, grandparents, uncles or aunties, the conceited or the shameful, people with status or those without reputation ... they are everywhere and they are capable of anything. God loves them all!” – Geng Yini Intertwining her way through multiple mediums Geng... Read more

Heidi Voet: 500 Years

30 May - 10 Jul 2015 Shanghai “The plastic bag is a vessel for an ever-changing content” It is predicted that it will take approximately 500 years for a disposable plastic bag to fully decompose. This demarcation of time is a catalyst for Belgian artist, Heidi Voet’s first solo exhibition at BANK. Through flags, figurative sculptures, and... Read more

The Bank Show

29 Mar - 24 May 2015 Shanghai It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the current order of capitalism. – Fredric Jameson “The BANK Show, Vive le Capital” explores, celebrates, and critiques the omnipresent power of global finance through its site-specific venue, the former Bank Union building (est. 1925). From... Read more

Jin Feng: I can’t be part of your revolution

24 Jan - 15 Mar 2015 Shanghai 'I Can’t be Part of Your Revolution' is a special collaboration between artist, Jin Feng and contemporary theatre director, Huang Fengling that deploys Mount Everest, the highest place on earth, as the definitive metaphor for human aspiration. Whether it is political conquest, late-capital sport, or pure status, Mount Everest has... Read more

Teach us To care and noT To care Teach us To siT sTill

15 Nov 2014 Shanghai (Did you learn more than you have been taught?) What are the effects of education, organized society, and communication technology on individual creativity and expression? How has social media, smart device dependency, and the ceaseless flow of information not only shaped emotional subjectivity but human behavior, faith, and notions of... Read more

Fang Wei: Assassin

15 Nov 2014 - 11 Jan 2015 Shanghai Assassin marks Fang Wei’s first solo show in two years with a survey of ambitious large scale works on canvas as well as an array of works on paper and other objects that help to define his distinct oeuvre. Taking the stealth character of the assassin as his departure point... Read more

Ouyang Chun: DETRITUS

16 Sep - 16 Nov 2014 Shanghai “Mud is the building block of our world... it is a repository of human memory” -Ouyang Chun BANK is proud to present Detritus, Ouyang’s first solo exhibition at BANK and his first solo show of sculptural work in Shanghai. Ouyang Chun’s expressive, childlike paintings helped to position him as one... Read more

Wang Jiaxue: Tired Romantic

19 Jul - 31 Aug 2014 Shanghai Wang Jiaxue spent her last year in the ‘New Classicism’ studio under the direction of Liu Renjie. Her work is the result of an exacting technique, intense concentration and a morbid imagination. Wang’s canvases look like they could’ve been unearthed from the Middle Ages with their gothic imagery, and smoothly... Read more

Chen Tianzhuo: PICNIC PARADI$E BITCH

19 Jul - 31 Aug 2014 Shanghai Chen Tianzhuo latest, multi-screen, video works presented here are elements that inform the artist’s long-format, staged opera epic ADAHA, which will be released next year. In PICNIC, a work made in collaboration with dancer Beio, a strange, possessed spirit that comes alive through a psychedelic hallucination, contorts against an alter... Read more

Xu Bing: Reading Room

18 May - 19 Jul 2014 Shanghai Reading Room: Launching The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground MABSOCIETY is honored to launch The Book about Xu Bing’s Book from the Ground, edited by Mathieu Borysevicz and published by MIT Press / Mass MoCA (English) and Guangxi Normal University Press (Chinese). On this occasion BANK’s project... Read more

Liao Guohe: Instant Morality

18 May - 19 Jul 2014 Shanghai BANK is pleased to announce the opening of Instant Morality, Liao Guohe’s second solo exhibition in Shanghai featuring new paintings and installation works made specially made for this occasion. Liao Guohe continues to expound obscure, satirical criticism about contemporary culture through his signature, discordant yet enchanting painting style. The title... Read more

Topophilia

15 Mar - 24 May 2014 Shanghai As cultural identity becomes more and more malleable in the age of globalization, what makes one “Chinese” or any other ethnicity for that matter? Cultural identity has become dependent not only upon where one is from, but also where one is now, and in what company. Many artists have made... Read more

Ground Floor Up

24 Jan - 15 Mar 2014 Shanghai Red is the warmest of all colors, the color of prosperity and joy but also of temper or anger. Red is the color of Mars, known as the God of War. It symbolizes passion- ate love. RED brings you enthusiasm and interest, energy, action and confidence, it makes you go... Read more

Geng Yini, Marx Lafia & Ma Daha: DYSTOPIA AND ITS CONTENT(MENT)S – 3 Solo Projects

14 Dec 2013 - 16 Feb 2014 Shanghai In his seminal book, Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud enumerates what he sees as the fundamental tensions between civilization and the individual. The primary friction, he asserts, stems from the individual’s quest for instinctual freedom and civilization’s contrary demand for conformity. The proliferation and currency of information in today’s... Read more

Paint(er)ly

27 Sep - 1 Dec 2013 Shanghai PAINT(erly) |ˈpeɪntəli| adj • of or appropriate to a painter; artistic: she has a painterly eye. • characterized by qualities of color, stroke, and texture rather than of line. This exhibition flushes out the notion of the “painterly”- that inherent and seductive quality of paintings that has not only helped... Read more