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Marina Ho
French Contemporary Art by Marina Ho - L’Envolée

2018

About the Item

L’Envolée / Fly Away 2018 Technique : fusain sur papier & bois / charcoal on paper to panel 30 x 20 cm signed on reverse About Marina Ho Marina Ho is a French-Vietnamese artist who lives & works between Paris & la Rochelle in France. Born in 1979, she decided to devote her time for painting at the age of 28. She mainly uses charcoal on paper & oil on canvas but only with black pigment. She had been exhibited in many prestigious art fairs in Asia by galerie bruno massa & represented in Paris by many well-known galleries. She waited until the age of twenty-eight to take her own flight and make her second birth, her flowering new state of mind is definitely the fruit of a spiritual journey. From a family where books and art are omnipresent, she carries from a young age a multiple cultural background which she will fill later on with her personal heuristic journey. She becomes "a pupil of herself". She gave up the world of fashion an she decides to devote her life in artistic painting practice, thus making the quote of Diogenes of Sinope her own: "When one is young he too early, when you are old it is too late”. Becoming what she wants is not easy, to find her pictorial identity and proudly wear her singularity in a world that prone to conformism even less. She then investigates her past, her family heritage, her personal contradictions...
  • Creator:
    Marina Ho (1979)
  • Creation Year:
    2018
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 7.88 in (20 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
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  • Gallery Location:
    Paris, FR
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU108723616482
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