Time Matters Not!
At Studio B.L.
By Galerie Jacques Barrère
And Luohan Tang
From March 21 to March 31, 2026, during the days
when Hong Kong welcomes the Art Basel fair,
Studio
B.L. will host an exhibition titled “Time
Matters
Not!”
We believe that art does not lie in time; it is more
than documents, witnesses, or vectors of ideas from
the period in which a work was created. Art exists
only in the eyes and souls of its appreciators —
wherever and whenever the magic occurs.
After focusing on the Tang dynasty, Galerie
Jacques
Barrere will now present the eternal,
beautiful, and
serene smiles of stone Buddhas that blossomed from
the sincerity of early believers during the Northern
and Southern Dynasties, who carved their faith into
stone. It was during this period that Buddhism truly
took root in China; at no other time did Chinese
Buddhist sculpture display such diversity and
intensity. Today, in contemplating these
representations of the Buddha, one can still feel
the profound faith that animated the devotees of
that era. These sculptures may even guide sensitive
modern viewers toward a spiritual realm of calm and
blissful imagery — beyond Buddhism itself —
enlivened by their own experiences and aspirations.
The selection of Galerie Jacques Barrere will
highlight major rock-art sites and the Shandong
region, with sculptures ranging from the Three
Kingdoms period to the Sui dynasty.
A similar process unfolds when contemplating the
scratched-ink works of Pan Xiaorong (born in
Yichun
in 1985), introduced by Luohan Tang. Using ink on
simple cardboard, he paints, carves, and scratches
with a knife and ruler. The meditative state he
sustains for hours and days to complete each piece
imbues the work with a hypnotic quality, inviting
the viewer’s mind to wander through these seemingly
void architectures, charged with tension and hope.
At first glance, for the modern viewer, the strange
yet graceful pair of small chairs presented by
Luohan Tang may seem disconnected from the
history
of Chinese furniture. In fact, they epitomize one of
the most creative periods in Chinese furniture
design: the early Qing dynasty, under the impetus of
Emperor Kangxi’s desire to “modernize” China in
science, technology, and the arts. Drawing upon
traditional Chinese ornamental elements, Qing
designers created perfectly symmetrical and
geometric compositions inspired by European graphic
design of the time. In turn, these now distinctly
Chinese forms and motifs have, knowingly or not,
influenced European designers from the Art Deco
period to the contemporary era — from Eileen Gray
(with Sugawara) to Philippe Starck.
Galerie Jacques Barrere and Luohan
Tang welcome you
to contemplate nearly 2,000 years of human history —
and to make this art your own.
时间无关紧要！
于 Studio B.L.
由 Galerie Jacques Barrère 与 Luohan Tang 联合呈现
2026年3月21日至3月31日，在香港迎来 Art Basel 艺术博览会期间，Studio B.L.
将举办题为“时间无关紧要！”的展览。
我们相信，艺术并不依附于时间；它不仅仅是某一创作时期的文献、见证或思想载体。艺术只存在于欣赏者的眼睛与灵魂之中——在魔力发生的任何时刻与任何地点。
继此前聚焦唐代之后，Galerie Jacques Barrère
此次将呈现那些在南北朝时期由早期信徒以虔诚信念雕刻于石中的佛陀形象——永恒、优雅而宁静的微笑。正是在这一时期，佛教真正扎根中国；中国佛教雕塑在此阶段展现出前所未有的多样性与张力。今日，当我们凝视这些佛像时，依然能够感受到那个时代信众所怀有的深沉信仰。这些雕塑甚至可能引领敏感的当代观者进入一种超越佛教本身的精神境界——一种宁静而充满喜悦的意象世界，在观者自身的经验与愿望中焕发生机。Galerie
Jacques Barrère
的精选作品将重点呈现重要石窟艺术遗址及山东地区的雕塑，时间跨度从三国时期至隋代。
类似的观照过程也发生在对潘小荣（1985年生于宜春）刮墨作品的凝视之中，该艺术家由 Luohan
Tang
推介。他以墨在朴素的纸板上创作，运用绘画、雕刻以及借助刀具与尺子的刮刻技法。为完成每一件作品，他往往持续数小时乃至数日保持冥想般的专注状态，使作品带有一种催眠般的气质，引导观者的思绪在那些看似空无却充满张力与希望的结构空间中游走。
乍看之下，Luohan Tang
呈现的那对造型奇特却优雅的小椅子，或许在现代观者眼中与中国家具史并无关联。事实上，它们正体现了中国家具设计最具创造力的时期之一：清初阶段。在康熙皇帝推动中国在科学、技术与艺术领域“现代化”的背景下，设计者在传统中式装饰元素的基础上，借鉴当时欧洲平面设计的灵感，创造出高度对称且富于几何美感的构图。反过来，这些如今已极具中国风格的形式与纹样，又或多或少地影响了从装饰艺术时期直至当代的欧洲设计师——从艾琳·格雷（与
Sugawara 合作）到菲利普·斯塔克。
Galerie Jacques Barrère 与 Luohan Tang
诚邀您一同凝视近两千年的人类历史——并让这份艺术成为属于您自己的体验。
At Studio B.L.
March 21st to 31st
Open daily from 11am to 8pm
Rykadan One, 22d Floor
23rd Wong Chuk Hang Road
Hong Kong
cell. : +852 6957 1220
StudioBLHK@gmail.com
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