At Art Basel Hong Kong Sanlorenzo presents the work of Li Qing

Press release, 6th March 2023 - Sanlorenzo returns to Art Basel Hong Kong, the oriental edition of the most important international modern and #contemporaryart fair which will take place from 21 to 25 March 2023. #sanlorenzo will present an unprecedented work executed by artist Li Qing entitled "Landscape with Lighthouses". Curated by Flash Art, the work was made possible thanks to the support of the Almine Rech Gallery, Paris London.

For #sanlorenzo, #liqing has created a completely original work that reflects the relationship between humanity and nature. The connection between #sanlorenzo and #liqing brings a new light on the seascape and the world of navigation, through the study and the different perspectives of the lighthouse form.

"Landscape with Lighthouses" is a unique work created using a window salvaged from an old building in the Chinese city, which serves to support the entire structure of the painting. Geometrical panels in the shape of a pinwheel are superimposed on a reproduction of the harbour; the different aesthetics of architecture and the sea, order and landscape, are delineated through the grid of the window. The lighthouse depicted in the centre of the work recalls the entrance to Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, interpreted with a modernist aesthetic. The font of this modelling indicates the relationship between man's industrial rationality and nature: the lighthouse, standing between the two, becomes a unit of measurement for evaluating and dividing two worlds, but is at the same time a symbol of surveillance and of travelling from one place to another.

The entire layout of the lounge emphasises a geometric sensibility. The macro-spatial perceptions of the city and nature constantly communicate the work. In the conflict and reverberation between artifice and nature, the beauty of colour and structure leads us to an unknown utopia. Dual worlds intertwine: futuristic, utopian, vertiginous architecture is traced by the geometry of the wooden structures, defined by the human brain.

Li Qing's work is part of the study initiated by #sanlorenzo through the arts and projected into the future. This ongoing enquiry has led the shipyard to create Sanlorenzo Arts, an interactive collection of works and projects spanning the most important themes of everyday life: sustainability, the environment, technology, nature, the sea and, above all, mankind, are addressed in original and resourceful ways, thanks to the sensitivity of artists, designers, architects and creative #people.

Sanlorenzo thus navigates the horizons of the present using the imagination, discovering new territories and new oceans thanks to the nautical charts provided by art and contemporaneity.