The award-winning Hilton Beijing Wangfujing launches the Art + Space exhibition area with Banquet of Colors by Ouka Leele, a photography exhibition of the Spanish artist Ouka Leele that runs from June 19 until July 18, 2010.
Banquet of Colors by Ouka Leele is organized by Hilton Beijing Wangfujing in collaboration with Magee Art Gallery and showcases a collection of 14 pieces of Ouka Leeles works from all different stages of her artistic career: from Hairdressers Series of her first solo in 1979, and works of the 1980s during the new wave cultural movement in Madrid, La Movida.
Ouka Leele, a prestigious Spanish female photographer with an art career dating back to the late 70s, ranks among the landmark figures of Europe as a contemporary of the American female artist Cindy Sherman. Ouka Leele participated into the new wave cultural movement La Movida, which began in Spain, especially in Madrid, during the 80s with the arrival of Democracy, and swept all over the European continent. Born in Madrid in 1957, Ouka Leele started painting when she was very young, always influenced by the Nature and the great masters from Museo del Prado. In 1976 she started her studies at Photocentro, an innovative photography school where you could glimpse the ideas that the young Spanish artists develop later in the 80s. Ouka Leeles universe has always been between two worlds, painting and photography, the earthly and the spiritual. When she was studying fine arts at university, she also began to study photography, and a strong way to express herself was revealed to her. Driven by the need of painting and the fascination with black and white photography, she fuses both techniques and develops her personal artistic language. She still continues painting, but using photography to register the reality previously created by her.
The Banquet of Colors by Ouka Leele photography exhibition is located on the newly-launched Art + Space exhibition area of Hilton Beijing Wangfujing on level 5 and is open from 10:00 am until 7:00 pm, daily. For more information, please call +86 (0) 10 5812 8888
Source: China Newswire
