Aperitif
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oil on linenBalice Hertling
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This painting features a vivid color palette, with bold reds and purples accentuating the two figures seated at a table. The simplified, stylized figures have distinct features and facial expressions, conveying a pensive, introspective mood. The artist's use of thick, textured brushstrokes and the flattened, abstracted background suggest a Post-Impressionist or Expressionist style. The setting appears to be a social gathering, but the somber expressions and solitary poses of the figures create a sense of isolation and introspection, hinting at the artist's intention to explore the human condition and the complexities of human relationships. ...

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Xinyi Cheng 程心怡
Artist
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡
B.1989, Chinese

Xinyi Cheng’s enegramic paintings depict the subjects of the artist's daily encounters. Her – at first glance – soft and pensive works manifest complexities of intimacy, emotion and desire, capturing and translating the state of being in the world. Through a gentle play of light and colour, the gestures, portraits and landscapes become translucent while remaining vivid in their emotive force. A man sitting on the sofa in his boxes and speaking on the phone, a small dog called Monroe staring at a bone, anonymous hands lighting someone’s cigarette, a couple frozen in embrace, the artist’s visual universe is familiar in its hazy everydayness. Reminiscent of the style and colour palette of such artists as Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas and Picasso, Cheng’s is strikingly unique yet universal. Cheng’s work is an intimate exploration of what it means to be human, together in the world. ...

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Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Lighter, 2019
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Red Bonnet
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Red Bonnet, 2019
39 x 46cm
Between Her and the Rain
The Midnight Fire
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 The Midnight Fire , 2020
60 x 73cm
Swimmer
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Swimmer, 2020
80 x 100cm
Stijn in the Red Bonnet
Aodhan
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Aodhan , 2020
40 x 50cm
Pine Forest
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Pine Forest, 2020
73 x 60 x 3cm
For A Light II
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 For A Light II, 2020
160 x 145cm
Red Kayak
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Red Kayak, 2020
200 x 165cm
Lighter
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Lighter, 2019
41 x 33cm
Parapetto
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Parapetto, 2021
160 x 145cm
Aperitif
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Aperitif, 2018
105 x 90cm
Long-distance Swimmer
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Long-distance Swimmer, 2021
55 x 46 x 2cm
Untitled
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Untitled, 2021
55 x 46cm
The Smoker
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 The Smoker, 2021
73 x 71cm
Untitled
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Untitled, 2021
55 x 46cm
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Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Untitled, 2023
40 x 55cm
Fountain V
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Fountain V, 2019
23 x 33 x 21cm
Fountain III
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Fountain III, 2012
42 x 40 x 30cm
Fountain IV
Xinyi Cheng 程心怡 Fountain IV, 2012
36 x 37 x 25cm
Balice Hertling
Gallery
Balice Hertling
Paris, Paris

Balice Hertling was founded in 2007 by Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling. Balice Hertling has hosted the debut solo shows of many artists like Camille Blatrix, Xinyi Cheng and Isabelle Cornaro—all of whom have gone on to earn widespread recognition. From 2012 to 2016, gallery founders Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling operated a project space in Manhattan. Returning to France in 2017, they relocated the main gallery to Paris’ Marais district and transformed the former Belleville location into a space for curated projects and shows by younger artists. Indeed, many artists represented by the gallery exemplify unique subcommunities of the emergent art world. This breadth of representation also translates to a breadth of medium, as the gallery represents painters as well as artists working in mixed media such as film, performance and sculptural objects. The gallery also represents artists whose careers are more established : British conceptual artist Stephen Willats, Syrian-born painter and sculptor Simone Fattal, and Italian artist Enzo Cucchi. In its programming and practices, Balice Hertling constantly works toward creating a more diverse and equitable art landscape. In this spirit, the gallery is proud to represent the Estate of Behjat Sadr, who was the first woman artist to be recognized as a modern master in Iran. As a result of the pandemic, the gallery co-founded « Palai » in the summer of 2021, a yearly exhibition hosting a small group of galleries from around the world, in historic locations in Lecce, a city in Italy's Puglia region. Palai is neither a curated exhibition nor a fair, it is thought to be a version of a residency, a collegial collaboration, where artists, galleries, and friends of the art world come together. In 2021 Balice Hertling relocated and brought closer both spaces in the Marais with a new main space inaugurated by a Ser Serpas scultpure solo show, and a new showroom and project space on rue de Montmorency. ...

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