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                                                                                   2020   News  from  Kim                                                                                                                 

ART POST LOCKDOWN

Another Time.Another  place.

'19' LOCKDOWN WINDOW EXHIBITION 

 BEN OAKLEY GALLERY 9, Turnpin lane,  Greenwich, London.

opens 21st MAY 2020 all PROCEEDS TO  @nhsherosupport 

all mask artworks £55 inc del

go to instagram - Benoakleyartgallery 

or my instagram 

A SERIES OF  NEW LARGE SCALE OILS 

AS I am working on each oil painting for a few  years,  the NEW SLOW pace spoken of during LOCKDOWN  is about par for the course for me. My new large scale work, follows on from several exhibitions (Compulsive Beauty 2014, Vertigo 2016, PAINTOPOLIS 2019) at The Ben Oakley Gallery. My lifelong subject matter has been 'The Sublime' -the Beauty/horror axis. Now like all of us, I'm living in new territory. I'm trying to make sense of this, using atmospheres of gaseous oil colour, drips and glazes, a vulnerable beauty.   As this new reality beckons BAMBI et al. Post global lockdown, I look  to the brilliant optimism of british  POP art of the 60s. Hopefully a A Brave New World awaits us........see my instagram account for these works 

                  GIANT DIGITAL PRINTS 

 A1 PRINTS ALL . SEE GALLERY.....they are  on fabulouso .....hannemeule etching paper 300g   edition of 25

The Pecking Order Etchings have now been published in RAGGED LION JOURNAL Issue 1 & 2 RaggedLion  Press in April 2020 . see picture left .I'm  honoured to be published  alongside literary luminaries and colleagues of the original'Beatgeneration' Poets, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and THE Gerard Malanga, who co-authored INTERVIEW magazine with Warhol, starred in several of his films and is a fine poet  and photogrpaher...........

https://www.raggedlionpress.co.uk/ragged-lion-journal  

STAY SAFE, STAY WELL X                           

A1   PRINT LOVE LIFE SERIES  NO. 1           1/15

ALL RIGHTS FOR THE THE ARTWORKS ARE RESERVED TO KIM TONG

ALL RIGHTS FOR THE THE ARTWORKS ARE RESERVED TO KIM TONG

PRIVATE VIEW AT THE BEN OAKLEY               Giant A1digital printfor                   

 GALLERY. GREENWICH, LONDON.                  HYPOCRACY 

ALL RIGHTS FOR THE THE ARTWORKS ARE RESERVED TO KIM TONG

Or so they say. This weekend, Dazed flew out to Lagos, Nigeria for the third annual MTV Africa Music.

Awards and spent a few days and some late nights meeting rap, R&B and kuduro superstars from across Africa: names like Banky W, Fally Ipupa, Daddy Owen, Cabo Snoop and Radio & Weasel, from Angola to Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and beyond, all huge stars in their own countries, selling truckloads of records despite rampant piracy and a rickety music industry. These guys are kind of the Jay Zs and Snoops of Africa, basically.