LACMA Receives Major Ink Painting Donation and Foundation Partnership
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has received a promised gift of over 400 contemporary ink paintings, mostly Chinese, from collectors Gérard and Dora Cognié. Highlights include works by Li Huasheng, Lin Tianmiao, Qiu Zhijie, Sugimoto Hiroshi, and Idris Khan. Gérard Cognié is a Swiss financier. Separately, Indonesian collector Budi Tek announced a partnership with LACMA to form a new foundation, to which he will donate most of his Chinese contemporary art collection. The foundation's first exhibition is scheduled for 2019 at a venue yet to be revealed.
Key facts
- LACMA receives promised gift of over 400 contemporary ink paintings from Gérard and Dora Cognié.
- Majority of the donated works are Chinese.
- Highlights include Li Huasheng's '209' (2002), Lin Tianmiao's 'Seeing Shadow 5 #2' (2006), Qiu Zhijie's 'Monuments: Revolutionary Slogans of Successive Dynasties' (2007), Sugimoto Hiroshi's 'Lightning Fields 143' (2009), and Idris Khan's 'Numbers' (2015).
- Gérard Cognié is a Swiss financier.
- Indonesian collector Budi Tek will partner with LACMA to form a foundation.
- Budi Tek will donate most of his Chinese contemporary art collection to the new foundation.
- The foundation's first show will open in 2019.
- The venue for the foundation's first exhibition is yet to be announced.
Entities
Artists
- Li Huasheng
- Lin Tianmiao
- Qiu Zhijie
- Sugimoto Hiroshi
- Idris Khan
Institutions
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- LACMA
Locations
- Los Angeles
- United States